It's nice to know that even though I took a blogging hiatus

Jimbo Wales is still a weasel.

Wikipedia oversteps

So much for claiming they except other people's copyright. The National Portrait Gallery vs. Wikipedia.

So why fix it now?

Editorial row engulfs Wikipedia

Wikipedia and insurgency

I'm just shocked an editor [Essjay] lied about his credentials on Wikipedia. The response is basically that some form of verification will be necessary for some things. Of course this doesn't deal with the major issue that is some version. Which is after all the definition of insurgency political subversion of a government. Now I'm not saying that Islamic extremists are going to hijack Wikipedia. Maybe Microsoft will though.

Why Wikipedia sucks

Over on John Scalzi's blog he has an interesting piece up on Wikipedia's problems. The most interesting part is a comment from one of his readers JC.

I had always thought that it (Wikipedia) strove to be truthful. Nope. Apparently, it strives mainly to be verifiable.

Wikipedia has always irritated me for some reason that I could never really figure out why until I read this post and the comments. I guess it just shows the entire concept is flawed. It's even more fundamental then the ability to vandalize articles at will. Until of course somebody notices. See the Anna Nicole Smith fiasco.

While researching this post came across this interesting tidbit that they maybe running out of money. Since the hard-cores don't want advertising on the pages.


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