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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Wikipedia
netbuzz points us to a somewhat snarky Washington Post article about the Wikipedians' work in upholding a minimum standard of "notability" for the collaborative encyclopedia. Here's his take on the Post's bemusement from a NetworkWorld blog: "The Washington Post this morning gets its snickers at the Wikipedians who do the best they can to apply the minimum 'notability' standards needed to keep the online encyclopedia's 1.5 million English entries relatively free of worthless junk. 'It's also safe to assume these are people with a lot of time on their hands,' the Post writer notes... These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous."
These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous
Like a shit casserole, the thanklessness of the job is irrelevant. The good intentions of a chef cannot overcome the poor choice of ingredients. In the case of Wikipedia, the poor choice was in an anarchic methodology that assumes a consensus of anonymity can product accuracy.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
wiki facts and NPOV is determined by mob politics and mob violence.
The fact is that Wikipedia is ruled over by people with more available time than the people that somehow get overruled. This means that wiki facts are facts as decided by people with more available time than people that get overruled. Perhaps those were people that actually work in the knowledge domain and have jobs in that knowledge domain.
Hence, wikipedia politics wiki facts is complete crap.
However, as a troll, it makes it very easy to fuck with their heads.
Just insert {{NPOV}} and {{NOT NOTABLE}} and {{SCIENTOLOGIST}} and the like wherever you want.
Fuck the wikipedia and frankly fuck it for good cause. NPOV never was and never will be and fuck anyone over that claims they have the NPOV, they frankly are either just stupid fucks or grabbing for power.
How better would the Wikipedia be if these articles were not present ?
They wouldn't have to be watched, patrolled and cleaned up. Like it or not... and you inclusionist clowns certainly don't... manpower is not infinite on Wikipedia. Dreams about putting the world in Wikipedia are just that... dreams. Not remotely in touch with reality, and ignoring a number of basic limitations.
IMO there is no such thing as too much information.
Yes... yes there is. Idiots like you are the reason why I simply stopped giving a toss about Wikipedia.
I can almost guarantee that stud9220 is one of those losers whose incredibly trivial article was deleted -- and he's now all hot-shit about Wikipedia being on a mission to include everything. I'm surprised he didn't drag out the old "Wikipedia is not paper" line too.