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Re: wikipedia isn't that hot these days
by Debian User on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @11:39

Hello,

my experience and understanding is different: First of all, review and critical review at that, is a good thing. If you can't stand it, you better don't consider yourself capable of public writing. You see, that's somehow like Free Software vs. Closed Software. You can't get everything you want into the Linux kernel. It must have a minimum quality, although not always. And you must have the trust of the people, although not always. In a Closed software, you simply don't have the issue, you can't contribute anything.

Were Wikipedia a failure, a free fork would be on its way already. The same thing is true of Linux kernel, KDE, etc. if there was something wrong, there would be forks.

That doesn't mean that there isn't a whole lot of people going around who tried to contribute, failed to pass review, and then starting whining.

You may be one of them. Your prediction on the KDE Wikipedia editor is baseless at least.

Yours,
Kay

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Re: wikipedia isn't that hot these days
by she on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @09:41

I dont agree with the posters before you, but I also dont agree with you, and your response has prompted me to correct some things:

"Were Wikipedia a failure, a free fork would be on its way already. The same thing is true of Linux kernel, KDE, etc. if there was something wrong, there would be forks."

No. A fork requires time (money, indirectly too), and a LOT OF EFFORT.
The bigger a project, the harder a fork would be. Take modular xorg.
The fork took a lot of time, and they moved a very difficult and long way.
How many "hobby" programmers are really working on it compared to people
hired by companies to do work?
The linux kernel is a much better example anyway because they have Linus and
more hobby programmers helping than any other project, but I dont think a
fork would be as easy as you predict here.

"That doesn't mean that there isn't a whole lot of people going around who tried to contribute, failed to pass review, and then starting whining."

Wait a second. There is no whining involved here. My comments have been often reverted, so often that I only add stuff to the discussion page now.
I am not whining. It is your attitude here that is at fault.

People expressing VALID CONCERNS may never be said to be "whining".
And a lot of the claims are true. I know admins that are nice, i know some that are asses (and this is not so much a personal opinion but rather one where I notice that different admins do things differently on wikipedia.)

"You may be one of them."

Stop your ad hominem attacks against him.

"Your prediction on the KDE Wikipedia editor is baseless at least."
That may be, but your suggestive remark is even more baseless.

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Re: wikipedia isn't that hot these days
by Patcito on Sunday 06/Apr/2008, @12:48

technically, the linux kernel is being forked everyday by using Git :p

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