Wikipidiots are not Nazis after all
Only obeying orders
CHARGES that the online "encyclopaedia" Wikipedia was a bunch of goosestepping Nazis have been abandoned by the German politician who made them.
Katina Schubert, a deputy leader of the far-left Left party, claimed that Whackypedia was using banned Nazi symbols particularly in an article on the Hitler Youth movement.
She called in Inspector Von Gnasher of the Berlin Yard on Thursday with demands Whackypedia should be arrested.
Over the weekend it seems that Schubert is playing a slightly different melody.
According to Reuters she had a quiet word to Wikimedia Deutschland and then abandoned her case.
Schubert said that she still believes that neo-Nazis could take advantage of the site, but says that filing charges is obviously the wrong path to go down.
She was particularly pleased to see that most of the symbols linked to the Hitler Youth had been removed from the website since she complained.
It seemed that Schubert did not have the support of many in her party. When the story was first announced some members of her party went public and said they disagreed with her stance. It is not clear if Whackypedia threatened to make the lot of them 'un-notable' and delete the whole party.
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Burn the history books...
they'll be next!Leftism and "Political Ghostbusting"
I guess that here in Europe "far-left" parties are too busy to hunt down "ghost nazis" to take in account the interest of the People (who, in theory, was the most important factor in the "left" of old times)......why these politicians don't quit their job and start a career as ghostbusters?
If all are like that politician, that'd be more like the job they're *actually* performing...
Why so much scorn?
"Wikipidiots".Do the people contributing to Wikipedia really deserve such a name?
I felt almost personally offended, to tell you the truth. I use it a lot and I don't know how I could do without it.
edit
If she didn't like what she saw, why didn't she just click 'edit'.While(1) anyone?
I won't get tired of saying this. Nick, are you in some kinde of While(1){bash wikipedia;} cycle? It grew old AGES ago.Yepp
Hi,this shows again how dumb german politicians are... I my self am german, 19 years old. The problem in germany is that we still have to say sorry all the time for what has happend in the past. I know it was tradgic, but I think 60 years is long enough so you can look forward. The problem is that german politicians who nobody cares about allways try to get noticed by pointing the finger on someone and saying he is a nazi. Everything a politician says or does could be pointed as beeing pro nazi. The german politicians close their eyes infront of the real problems of this country, because they are to busy thinking what to do or say so nobody can say they are nazis... got the problem? Its like in older days with the witches. But this is only a politicians problem so please don´t think that we germans are all faggoty :D
Cheers
Why not edit?
>If she didn't like what she saw, why didn't she just click 'edit'.She could have done that, sure. But Wikipedia's nazis would have seen that as censorship, and someone would have just reverted her edit.
She;d need a really good reason to remove the images. Of course, "because they're against the law" is a pretty good reason...
Geesh
AMD is starting to look like Wikipedia... It was once THE THING.... now it's bloated by errata :)Lol, joking. I belive in Wikipedia, it got potential, like AMD.
Here's why
Subjects like the NAZI's are most often watched, and protected from editing by new members that just became member to foul up stuff.So if some nutter or zealot goes and messes with it for no informative reason it's restored immediately.
Hope that clears it up jai.
@:geo
So you're saying that there are no idiots tinkering around in Wikiland ?Of course there are. The fact that you use the big W does not absolve the idiots from the scorn they deserve.
After all, if you join a site that publicly promotes fairness and objectivity, you're supposed to actually uphold those values and not veer into Nazi-style information-suppression validated by secret tribunals.
Secret hearings. The very notion should not even have been created in the first place. Not on a site that is supposed to be edited by the public.
I'm not going to blame anyone for using Wikipedia - it's a resource and should be used when it's useful.
But I have zero tolerance for the egomaniacs who seem to act like their position is a God-given right and makes them "superior" to others.