idontgno's Journal: wikiwikiwiki! That's a sound effect!

I find myself slowly falling in love with wikipedia. Damn. It's scary.

Yeah, I know, it lacks authority, it's just a rabble spewing their institutionalized ignorace, it's a blog pretending to be an encyclopedia.

So, it's a lot like /. How's that for scary?

Anyways, it's fun. Lately I'm mostly playing whack-a-vandal. It's a petty game, really, but I get the cheap and vindictive thrill of undoing some yutz's graffitization of a perfectly good article. There's a moment of "In your FACE, Mr. 204.23.152.19! Don't bring your weak editing crap here NO MORE!" And then I have to ride herd on the article, because I know the foo' is coming back for more.

Eventually, I'll outgrow this phase. I guess it's like the first 5 mod points here, where the desire to smack down offtopics and flamebaits is irresistable. I'm sure in time I'll move on to more positive pursuits there, just like whenever I get modpoints here I try to upmod, not down.

Obviously you've not read this yet ;-)

[Morosoph]

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/is sue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/ [freesoftwaremagazine.com]

Re:Obviously you've not read this yet ;-)

[idontgno]

Good read. It's interesting to note how a public open-source not-for-profit resource in competition with a proprietary for-product one, whether software or encyclopedia, draws a lot of FUD from the parties with a vested proprietary for-profit interest.

Again, ESR's Cathedral and Bazaar [catb.org] is proven.