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Re: I love Wikipedia and KDE, but ..
by Bille on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @10:02

Maybe it makes me an elitist attidude, but one of the things I find stinks about english wikipedia is the amount of non-knowledge on there. People are free to spend their time as they like, but IMO an encyclopaedia should stop where the fictional loses contact with the real and starts referring back to itself. Kudos to the german wikipedians for keeping fantasy and reality separate.

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Re: I love Wikipedia and KDE, but ..
by Tom on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @13:14

I was not talking about fantasy. The information must be facts.
But .. well .. different people have opinions what knowledge is I guess. For me a well maintained article about a niche distro is knowledge.

I think wikipedia is more than a traditional encyclopedia .. i think it was intended to be a wiki to collect information. All sorts of real proven facts etc. If you have people maintaining it should be fine. I really dont see the need/reason for deletion. It is not that diskspace would be a problem or something..

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Re: I love Wikipedia and KDE, but ..
by John Tapsell on Friday 04/Apr/2008, @16:43

Why? How does it harm you if there is an article on the characters in Buffy, say?

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Re: I love Wikipedia and KDE, but ..
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @04:08

My gut instinct is that it isn't, as long as fan gushing is kept in check. I think deleting is bad form: if there is something wrong with an article factually (or style) it should be fixed: deleting peoples work only creates resentment. Even people who know nothing about a subject can identify problems with it or help to rewrite but it's fans you need to maintain pages and remove vandalism.

Wikipedia could do with a "new editors" programme to bring in fresh talent. Of course, everyone can edit but the rules upon rules and groupthink can get in the way. Every organisation needs fresh ideas to keep it innovating.

...Back on topic. There's something neat about seeing a KDE office... but it did make me wonder, what have you been doing up to now? That it has grown to the size it has with volunteer only administration is impressive in itself.

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