Wikipedia and the History of Gaming

Wired is running a story about Wikipedia's tremendous contribution to documenting the history of video games, and why it shouldn't necessarily be relied upon. Quoting: "Wikipedia requires reliable, third-party sources for content to stick, and most of the sites that covered MUDs throughout the ’80s were user-generated, heavily specialized or buried deep within forums, user groups and newsletters. Despite their mammoth influence on the current gaming landscape, their insular communities were rarely explored by a nascent games journalist crowd. ... while cataloging gaming history is a vitally important move for this culture or art form, and Wikipedia makes a very valiant contribution, the site can’t be held accountable as the singular destination for gaming archeology. But as it’s often treated as one, due care must be paid to the site to ensure that its recollection doesn’t become clouded or irresponsible, and to ensure its coalition of editors and administrators are not using its stringent rule set to sweep anything as vitally relevant as MUDS under the rug of history."

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Wikipedians are fucking bastards, troll the truth.

[Anonymous Coward]

They like throwing babies down the stairs and make kittens eat their shit. They have sent horses to hospital by fucking them up the ass with razors. Admins have serious mental disorders due to staying up hours a day for years on end. Its like World of Wikicraft. They get paranoid delusions and can only talk in wiki abreviations and instead of civily dealing with complaints they ba users and protect pages on their prefered versions. Stewards are even worse since they can ban people on any Wiki project. Do your bit, vandalize until your ISP range gets checkuserblocked. If enough people vandalize good faith users will move to real encyclopedias and admins will be forced to get out of their basements.