Wikipedia Founder Sees Serious Quality Problems 459
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "The Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online project. From the article: 'Meanwhile, criticism from outside the Wikipedia camp has been rebuffed with a ferocious blend of irrationality and vigor that's almost unprecedented in our experience: if you thought Apple, Amiga, Mozilla or OS/2 fans were er, ... passionate, you haven't met a wiki-fiddler.'"
Perhaps they need a team of paid editors (Score:5, Funny)
Still not the top zealot (Score:4, Funny)
These people still can't hold a candle to Jack Thompson.
Wiki for Keith Curtis! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yes, Wikipedia has accuracy issues, but..... (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Sl
Re:Of course there's a lack of quality (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wikipedia is the greatest tool in the world... (Score:2, Funny)
How ironic that I find that is the best time to fire up a random page in Wikipedia.
Ah, from a rag with accuracy issues... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:NOTE TO JULESH (Score:1, Funny)
Serious doubts! (Score:2, Funny)
Some people do have really serious doubts [uncyclopedia.org] about the credibility of wikipedia [wikipedia.org] content.
On the other hand, wikipedia people do have doubts about these other lads [wikipedia.org] as well. Hmmm, looks like circular distrust to me...
Re:What's scary is... (Score:5, Funny)
How to do this story for a newspaper. (Score:5, Funny)
Pots, kettles war over who's the blackest
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Re:Yes, Wikipedia has accuracy issues, but..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NOTE TO MODS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Still not the top zealot (Score:2, Funny)
They'd get slapped with a harassment lawsuit, for one.
Re:Perhaps they need a team of paid editors (Score:3, Funny)
Well, at 24 articles they have Wikipedia beat.
Re:Wikipedia generally works (Score:5, Funny)
What really happened was you all went out to gather empirical evidence and everyone forgot where the article was.
Wikipedia has been succeeded... (Score:3, Funny)
...because they're behind a caching proxy. (Score:2, Funny)
The Wikipedia block user interface specifically suggests to "keep blocks in these ranges to 15 minutes or less" when blocking a vandal within AOL's IP range. No other ISP in the world receives this sort of favoritism from Wikipedia
6 - The "funny" idiot (Score:4, Funny)
I still remember one article in the German wikipedia... about cloning didgeridoos. Complete with a picture of tiny little digeridoos in test tubes, and a paragraph about how they live longer than the ones born naturally. About a year later, it was still there. (Now it's finally gone, though.)
OK, so it's a sorta the bastard child of your points 3 and 4. Except while the PR professional knows they're subverting and polluting a resource for profit, and the vandal knows they're defacing, the "funny" idiot might actually think he's doing a public service.