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A writer with a chip on his shoulder?

Perish the thought!

posted by : PeriSoft, 04 November 2008 Complain about this comment
And that means ?

So basically Jimbo admits that he had this great idea, but totally fecked up the installation and could somebody please do what it was he thought of initially ?
Well, Jimbo, why don't you start by making your site a bit more accountable for the "information" it holds ?
Because a true Encyclopedia does not censor articles on the whim of an editor with God-like rights.
And for a project like Wikipedia, I would expect any censoring to be the object of a public report, balanced and thought through, explaining why a given article should be censored, who accepted that responsibility and when was the decision taken.
You know, something OPEN, TRANSPARENT and therefor a lot more trustworthy than the back room bar dealings we are witnessing every day.
And get rid of the "truth by consensus" notion as well. Something is true or it is not. If you cannot prove it, then find proof. If no proof is to be found, then file it under "unsubstantiated".
But don't censor just because you can.
That is the most annoying, petty thing you can do.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 04 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Wikipedia half-baked admits Jimmy Wales

Reading the last statement in your article about Daily Tech was reassuring. I thought I was alone in thinking that something strange was going on at for some time now.

posted by : Atreya Basu, 03 November 2008 Complain about this comment

Wikipedia half-baked admits Jimmy Wales

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