Do you Wikipedia?

Billy · 02-24-2005, 08:06 PM

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WIRED: Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia.

I just visted there today. There are lots of information now and no ADs.

Troubleshooter · 02-24-2005, 08:14 PM

All of the time.

What else is neat is that the new Trillian has hotlinks generated in the text of your messages that you send and receive when IMing.

smoothmoniker · 02-24-2005, 10:05 PM

i find it really frustrating. the open editting format means that anyone with an agenda can come rip apart the article you just spent a week carefully researching and writing.

Pie · 02-25-2005, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

the open editting format means that anyone with an agenda can come rip apart the article you just spent a week carefully researching and writing.

Sometimes the posts get "locked" when there is too much editing. I actually got into reading the discussion threads behind some of the physics articles (Bell's Experiment, EPR Paradox, Hidden Variables, etc.) Those folks are brutal!

I've actually added a little bit to one post (chronic lymphocytic leukemia) and corrected one case of defacement (Vizag, India).
- Pie

SteveDallas · 02-25-2005, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

All of the time.

What else is neat is that the new Trillian has hotlinks generated in the text of your messages that you send and receive when IMing.

It really makes the chat experience kind of surreal.

Troubleshooter · 02-25-2005, 01:34 PM

Especially if your mouse floats up into the history box and a giant definition of some word explodes across the window and you sit there for a second trying to discernt the relevance.

BigV · 02-25-2005, 02:20 PM

I listened to a very interesting story on NPR and the thought of having manymany editors was discussed. One of the potential drawbacks was that wrong information would be posted but the actual results have indicated that it seems to be a self correcting arrangement where the truth tellers

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Originally Posted by pie

Those folks are brutal!

outnumber the liars and quickly correct the errors.

I have been a consumer of Wikipedia, but only very casually and infrequently. I find Google a useful superset of Wikipedia.

02-24-2005, 08:14 PM	#2
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	All of the time. What else is neat is that the new Trillian has hotlinks generated in the text of your messages that you send and receive when IMing. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

02-24-2005, 10:05 PM	#3
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	i find it really frustrating. the open editting format means that anyone with an agenda can come rip apart the article you just spent a week carefully researching and writing. __________________ to live and die in LA

02-25-2005, 01:34 PM	#6
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Especially if your mouse floats up into the history box and a giant definition of some word explodes across the window and you sit there for a second trying to discernt the relevance. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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