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Journalism is a trade rather than a profession, a bit like bricklaying
Wikipedia founder discovers new race of humans
WACKYPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has discovered a new race of humans that he thinks are set to take over the Internet. Wales looked and saw that the Internet in the Middle East is being taken over by "ordinary" Arabs.
Extraordinary Arabs want to censor stuff and do not like Wackypedia much, it seems.
He blamed hacks for making the world plus dog think the Middle East was packed full of extremists. The encyclopaedophile said ordinary people are far more moderate and far more ordinary than the unfortunately polarised views of extremes.
He must have pulled that pearl of political insight from one of his own popular user-generated encyclopedia web pages.
Wales claimed that one day people will start to see the Middle East in a " very different light" and not see it as "a basket of problems." More chilling political insight here. ยต
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Why can't some of these journalists out there (not YOU, Inquirer) have the strength and nerve to ask Jimbo a question like this:

"Your Openserving.com project was an attempt to democratize wiki community ownership, which was announced with great fanfare. Why did it so utterly fail to even get off the launch pad?"
[tries not to fall under the desk laughing, then takes a deep breath and composes a serious face]

...Ouch!

[...back to laughing...]
why does the inq hate wikipedia so, so, soooo much?

Who cares about the people who run it?
The people who run the inq are nerds, just like the rest of the people who run the web, just like the rest of the people who really know how to use it.

Wikipedia is quite useful for the common casual inquiry, obviously.

If it were not the inq being written to I might say that you ought to tone down the attack or at least get some facts... but it is the inq, and asking for moderation or facts is just plain silly.

Anyway,
you both serve your purpose, tools.