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."

Comments

Let me be the first to say

[OffTheLip]

thank you, thank you and thank you. Really, I mean it. Flame on!

To avoid Vandalism

[superpulpsicle]

I would like to see them get rid of anonymous edits. And also make the registration process effort consuming. Only people with accounts should be able to edit, set the minimum age to 21. Hells, why not link it up to the drivers license numbers. Cut the vandalism in half and you'll save alot of good wikipedians time.