"Wikipedia is certainly a top ranking search engine result for many subjects"
So much so that I wish google would implement a "no wikipedia" filter option that could be set as default. I am deeply suspicious of the "wiki" model.
Open source code is one thing:
- there's usually one or several informed gatekeepers, and - the stuff has to pass the test of fire: it has to actually RUN (and preferably work properly too)
whereas an "encyclopedia' where any random person can post or overwrite text seems... well, not so reliable.
I'm not sure how the two became entwined under the same umberella...
Why is nobody noticing the elephant in the room?
Webaroo is an ASTONISHINGLY bad idea. Clutter up your drives with gigabytes of "stuff" on the off chance that you might do the occasional search offline which, as actual results, uses a vanishingly small percentage of that "stuff". And aren't we all connected wirelessly nowadays anyway?
As for the even worse "feature" of automatic resynchronization: the mind shudders at the storm of pointless bandwidth to update the "stuff".
I can't wait for them to go public so I can short the stock...
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"Wikipedia is certainly a top ranking search engine result for many subjects"
So much so that I wish google would implement a "no wikipedia" filter option that could be set as default. I am deeply suspicious of the "wiki" model.
Open source code is one thing:
- there's usually one or several informed gatekeepers, and
- the stuff has to pass the test of fire: it has to actually RUN (and preferably work properly too)
whereas an "encyclopedia' where any random person can post or overwrite text seems... well, not so reliable.
I'm not sure how the two became entwined under the same umberella...
Why is nobody noticing the elephant in the room? Webaroo is an ASTONISHINGLY bad idea. Clutter up your drives with gigabytes of "stuff" on the off chance that you might do the occasional search offline which, as actual results, uses a vanishingly small percentage of that "stuff". And aren't we all connected wirelessly nowadays anyway? As for the even worse "feature" of automatic resynchronization: the mind shudders at the storm of pointless bandwidth to update the "stuff". I can't wait for them to go public so I can short the stock...