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Interview Looks at How and Why Wikipedia Works
driehle writes to tell us that he recently had a chance to interview Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko. All three are leading Wikipedia practitioners in the English, German, and Japanese Wikipedias and related projects. The interview focuses on how Wikipedia works and why these three practitioners believe it will keep working.
NIGGERS! It's all about NIGGERS!
The Temple of Uptenmesh, 1000-800 BCE, near Alexandria, was a glorified brothel. You can confirm this fact by a number of approaches:
1) you can get on a plane to Egypt, hire an army of workers and conduct your own search and examinations at the site,
2) At a regional rare-book library, you might be able to read the reports and papers of Abigail Q. Whorstenshire, who found the shrine in the 19th century and carried out the initial assays,
3) At a local university library, you can read the subsequent analysis of (2) by third parties, or even more up to date data from the site,
4) At your local city library, you can read summaries of the above in the latest editions of the peer-reviewed and fully referenced Encylopedia Erratica,
4) You can go to Wikipedia, where random pimply-faced fuckwits invent any manner of nonsense on a daily basis, complete with "citations" and offer it to the world at large as the truth.
Even the Great Leader has admitted to this problem. To paraphase DirtyJimbo himself: "I know what you're thinking: 'Did he use six false citations or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is Wikipedia, the most powerful bullshit generator in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"