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  • CDSmith
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • May 2001
    • 51460
    #1

    Poor Wikipedia now taking hits from all sides

    "Credibility gap"... ha ha... I love it.

    Is wikipedia the end-all-BE-all answer source that some think it is?


    http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Worl...81932-sun.html

    Canada's Sun Media is now fucking with them.

    Then there's things like this...
    Just last week, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales asked contributors who claim credentials to disclose their full names instead of a pseudonym, following an incident that rankled Wikipedians. One of their most prolific contributors, purporting to be a tenured professor of religion with expertise in canon law, was exposed as a fraud. EssJay, who made over 20,000 contributions, was in fact a 24-year-old college dropout from Kentucky.
    I particularly like the final paragraph of the article
    In the meantime, users will have to rely on their good sense to understand, for example, that though it was temporarily posted on the world's largest encyclopedia, hunters have not resorted to a more humane method of seal hunting by coaxing animals with peanut butter and apricot jam sandwiches.
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    • Halcyon
      Spread The Pink!
      • Dec 2002
      • 8609
      #2
      but the genius of Wiki is that the flow of info is transparent. You can see how info builds/is refuted/etc.
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        • Phoenix
          BACON BACON BACON
          • Nov 2002
          • 35475
          #3
          wikipedia is crap..it should be outlawed

          think of all the naive people that bel9ieve everything on there
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            • RawAlex
              So Fucking Banned
              • Oct 2003
              • 9465
              #4
              wikipedia is fine until it gets to areas not of fact but of judgement. That the major issues surround areas such as politics and religeon shouldn't surprise anyone. There is no such thing as definitive history on either subject.

              Wiki is a great tool for straight issues. It is an easily corrupted tool when it comes to opinion.

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                • Gunni
                  Confirmed User
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 2385
                  #5
                  Wikipedia had a lesser % of errors than britannica...

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                    • J. Falcon
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                      • May 2006
                      • 31587
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Phoenix
                      wikipedia is crap..it should be outlawed

                      think of all the naive people that bel9ieve everything on there
                      The naive people should be outlawed to think.
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                        • _Rush_
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2006
                          • 742
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Halcyon
                          but the genius of Wiki is that the flow of info is transparent. You can see how info builds/is refuted/etc.
                          Right on the spot.
                          No sig.

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                            • corvette
                              Confirmed User
                              • Oct 2001
                              • 7880
                              #8
                              haha, credibility gap was another word for "lie" when used around watergate/nixon
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                                • ElvisManson
                                  Looking California
                                  • Feb 2001
                                  • 5476
                                  #9
                                  the word wiki by it's very definition means that anyone can edit the content.

                                  wiki:

                                  A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

                                  FYI... I got this definition from dictionary.com just to be on the safe side...lol

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                                    • _Richard_
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Oct 2006
                                      • 30989
                                      #10
                                      i wish people from manitoba would find something better to do

                                      R

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                                        • D
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jan 2006
                                          • 7412
                                          #11
                                          Wiki's a great concept, and while I wouldn't use it as a reference in a paper I might be writing, or anything definitive, Wikipedia's usually the first thing I'll turn to if I want some quick information.

                                          Now if they could set things up so that there was formal peer reviewing of all articles that were submitted _before_ they go live, that would probably be best in the end.
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                                            • Brad
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jan 2007
                                              • 2510
                                              #12
                                              Interesting article. Do we assume that everything that we read is the truth though? I doubt that anyone with a brain ever takes information on the internet to be the absolute truth. If it is important to know the truth it's usually best to find a primary source for the information, even then it is important to verify the information from another source or two. Wikipedia to me serves only to give background information on something that I only have a passive interest in. Pretty funny that this article appeared in the Sun...considering it is a joke of a newspaper in the first place. They were probably just pissed off because their reporters were getting false information from the site
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                                                • mikeyddddd
                                                  Viva la vulva!
                                                  • Mar 2003
                                                  • 16557
                                                  #13
                                                  They usually catch stuff like this:

                                                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

                                                  Pope Paul VI (Flos florum)
                                                  Pope Paul VI, FUCK YOU who reigned from 1963-1978, is described in the prophecies as Flos florum (flower of flowers). His personal arms bore three fleurs-de-lis, the well-known symbol in flags and heraldry used to represent the French monarchy. "Fleur-de-lis" literally means "flower of louis" (as a reference to the Louis Kings of France). However, this disregards all the other papal arms that had flowers on them as well.

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                                                    • drjones
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Oct 2005
                                                      • 908
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by Gunni
                                                      Wikipedia had a lesser % of errors than britannica...
                                                      Actually, I think the study showed that they had a slightly higher % of errors, but the articles, on average, had over twice the content of traditional encyclopedias.

                                                      It really is an amazing resource, and all references are cited, so you can go find the source of the information yourself and decide if its accurate.
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                                                        • timberlands
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                                                          • Sep 2005
                                                          • 504
                                                          #15
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                                                            • CDSmith
                                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                              • May 2001
                                                              • 51460
                                                              #16
                                                              Originally posted by Mr.Sexbankroll
                                                              i wish people from manitoba would find something better to do

                                                              R
                                                              Is there a higher cause than the pursuit of truth and accuracy of information?

                                                              I think not.
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