The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again

Syberghost writes "The Register has fired off another salvo in their long-running war of words with Wikipedia, in the form of an article about the lack of "moral responsibility" from the operators of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users fired back less than an hour later, making the Register headline obsolete."

Comments

Fired back?

[hesiod]

If that Wiki entry is firing back, the gunpowder must have been wet.

Re:Ha

[servognome]

wikipediOWNED!

UGH, it's wikipediPWNED! I'm so sick and tired of poor spelling on /.

Re:Moral Victory

[winkydink]

online debating is to real debating as wikipedia is to a real encyclopedia

The Register is a bunch of hypocrites

[Anonymous Coward]

If you knew their history, you would know why.

Founded in Nazi Germany by Adolph Hitler they were used to register all Jews marked for death in concentration camps. During the 60's, they supported neo-Nazis in America and were involved in the Kennedy Assassination. In the 90's they started covering IT news.

  - From WikiPedia

Re:Moral Victory

[KDan]

Yes, of course. In the wonderful world of the Wikipedists, anything they say is golden because it's in a kind of encyclopedia, which automatically justifies it as being the absolute truth and if you don't like it you can change it yourself or go whine about it on slashdot and claim that the "Wikipedia has fired back" and if this is a firing back then the ammo was a fart and I'm getting bored of writing in this long add-on sentence style that resembles some Wikipedia articles and so I'm going to stop now.

Daniel

Re:If the troll label fits

[autophile]

Nope, Andrew Orlowski is a troll. I still have no idea why The Reg keeps him on.

You must be new to British tabloid journalism.

--Rob

Re:Moral Victory

[DrSkwid]

I've got 3 Register T-Shirts and 0 Wikipedia ones

victory to vulture central