April 17, 2006

Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On WikiTruth A group of disenchanted Wikipedia administrators have been retrieving articles deleted by Jimbo Wales or other higher-ups. Now they're putting them back up on a website for everyone to see.
posted by Scary Corn Imp 18 years ago
  • I have to say that I find the politics of Wikipedia extremely depressing and boring. I enjoy dabbling now and then in editing some of Wikipedia's obscure topics. If Wikipedia is Manhattan, I'm not on Times Square... I'm down there by the wharf at 11 pm. I just don't have any interest in "big" topics, because any meaningful edits I make are pretty much lost after a few weeks as the material deforms and grows. On the fringes I'm king of my own little fiefdoms.
  • The advice I give to anyone who is enamoured of the amount of information at Wikipedia is that it is, at best, a first stop in the quest for reliable information, not something to cite in a paper. I'm not sure the foundation of a new, "uncensored" version of Wikipedia is the right way to go. Much better to publish in Nature, IMO, if their editorial policy will accept articles questioning the reliability of their new toy.
  • At last the truth will out!
  • I just don't have any interest in "big" topics, I think that's what makes Wikipedia valuable. That people enter the minutiae of their interests somewhere central. But agreed with Skrik, citing it as a source would be akin to writing your paper in crayon. Not that I've ever linked to it in an FPP or anything. *cough*
  • I guess the truth will have to wait for a bigger network pipe. They've been overrun by the hordes.
  • The Outlaw Jimbo Wales?
  • I won't let students use the Wikipedia as a source, either, and they have a hard time understanding why. I make it easier with a blanket ban on all encyclopedias. (Though you'd laugh at how many people will then try to turn around and site a source that simply steals the text of the wikipedia.)
  • finally we will learn the truth about brian peppers
  • Britannica's president Jorge Cauz identifies a homogeneity online he finds unsettling. "Internet discourse has the ability to negate the diversity of voices, and no one can differentiate between truth and myth," he says.
    Is this what that mean face was trying to say?
  • I'm sure that Wikipedia justifies it's censorship however it wants.
  • I'm sure that Wikipedia justifies it's censorship however it wants. indeed. there's a bit more context and an interesting discussion between mefi's orthogonality and some wiki admin over at slashdot, fwiw
  • The truth about Brian Peppers is that he is an unfortunate individual, deserving of care, rather than ridicule. But Brian Peppers is not what Wikitruth is about. The double standards of Wikipedia is what Wikitruth is about.