Another Wikipedia Speech!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

If you hate the Wikipedia as much as I do, Jason Scott (the BBS Documentary guy) had an all-new speech that he delivered in England recently. It's currently the first entry on his site:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/

But you can download it from here.

I haven't heard it yet. I'm probably burning it to a CD and making it my commuting audio tomorrow. Actually, I wish that every day I could turn on the radio and listen to someone bash Wikipedia. A radio station that did such a thing, for instance. You'd totally have trouble getting MP3s of it archived daily because every single anal-retentive, Asperger Syndrome person in the world is a strong contributor towards okay, I think you get the idea.

At any rate.

[AArdvark]

They might as well call it Rumor-pedia or Urbanlegend-pedia

It's useful for bare bones stuff but I wouldn't use it as a source for a research paper or anything.

I heard it on the internet so it must be true. Now forward this to ten of your friends and you will have good luck for one hour....


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[Lysander]

Wikipedia is useful for finding sources. I will often use Wikipedia in research papers if hte statement they are referring to is sited lower down in the article. Similarly, the "citation needed" tag is a pretty good hint that what the guy just said is a load of bunk and to not believe it.