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Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released
David Gerard writes "SOS Children's Villages has released the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools — 5500 checked and reviewed articles matching the English National Curriculum, produced by SOS for use in their own schools in developing countries. The 2007 edition was a huge success, with distributions to schools in four countries, use by the Hole in the Wall education project, thousands of downloads and disks and around 6000 unique IPs a day visiting the online version — the most successful end-user distribution version of Wikipedia to date."
Ordinarily I wouldn't bother with some of this.
However, I read the posts and then compared the behavior of David Gerard (on here) with the behavior reported by Parker Peters and the behavior of wikipedia administrators in the cases cited.
As far as I can tell, Peters is right. David Gerard and the rest of Wikipedia's crowd behave as a small-minded individuals who cannot carry on a discussion, can't actually hold an argument, but simply argue by way of accusing people of being "trolls" and make ridiculous accusations of everyone being everyone else.
Case in point: Gerard is accusing someone here of having written the blogs referenced. I wonder why, and I further believe that whether that's the case or not, it's a red herring. Who wrote the blogs is not the point: whether or not the truth is being told is.
Gerard can't argue against the truth, so he has to go for character assassination and personal attacks. And that seems to be the MO for any wikipedian out there.
Obligatory Yoda Quote: "and that is why you fail."