Posted on 02/15/2010 4:56:17 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Found this article on the NY Slimes:
Speed bumps on the Wikipedia highway
This is an article all about Jimmy Wales, it seems. The following paragraph is clearly about the guy.
And of course, buried in the article you can see this:
Despite some of the attacks on Wales, he is still largely a hero within the Wikipedia community – walking through the annual conventions with assistants in tow, greeting the most enthusiastic Wikipedia contributors from across the globe, receiving invitations to the World Economic Forum in Davos, attending George Soros' birthday party.
Wikipedia is a decent resource if you want to know how do do a quadratic equation. If you want info on global warming or an unbiased look at politics fuhgettaboutit.
Not surprising at all. We’ve known Wukipedia to be leftist crap.
One should try Conservapedia.com. for facts.
I still use Wikipedia for many things. I was just looking up a TV series a few minutes ago, and I knew I could get the schedule for Season 8 and the shows that had been shown in the last few weeks, in just a few seconds. And sure enough, I looked it up, found my information and was off in less than one minute... bingo...
So, Wikipedia is good for various things... :-)
Could you do the same on conservapedia?
I’ve been over there and they’re quite limited... but, just to illustrate it, I’ll check it out right now (just so you know what I was looking at, it was the TV series “24” which is on tonight). I missed some shows, and I wanted to see what I missed and see what was coming up tonight so I could catch up before viewing tonight’s show. And this is just one little example of how things work so well on Wikipedia.... I’ll be back after I check it out over at Conservapedia... :-)
Okay, I just got back from it and did searches on “24” TV series and variations thereof, and also “Jack Bauer” and didn’t come up with anything...
That’s another reason why I go to Wikipedia, I don’t have to jump around all over the place, wondering whether this site or that site is going to have the basic information that I want... I can just about find any darned thing there...
The other day I was looking up information on the Glomar Explorer and the lost Soviet sub that was pulled up, and also Howard Hughes. It was all there, in different articles. The sub, the salvage ship, the CIA program and details about that, and also about Howard Hughes and his involvement and so on.
And in addition to that, if you had any question about the details that were given there in the Wikipedia article, they were all referenced back to other sources and you could go to those sources and view the information there, too...
So, I don’t really have too much problem with using Wikipedia...
Must be more contributors.
Also, go to Conservapedia and look up the city you live in... I put in several cities that I’ve been in and I can’t get anything (except for about a sentence or two) for any of them (most of them in the top 30 cities in population size. They’re all listed in Wikipedia... with full information. On Conservapedia, I got like five words on one city... LOL... and one paragraph on another, and it’s ridiculous... there’s no basic information there on Conservapedia...
I did get more than a paragraph from Dallas, but it was nowhere like the Wikipedia one. And for Houston, it was less than Dallas and Houston is a bigger city (definitely a lot of information available for Houston, to be sure... LOL...).
I did Portland, Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, Corvallis [OR], Antlers [OK], Galveston [TX], Vancouver [BC] for starters...
It’s very, very poor there, on that site.
Absolutely..., no doubt about it...
No, it's that Conservapedia has an unabashed social/political agenda -- spreading the Conservative point of view. It doesn't pretend to be neutral (as Wikipedia does).
As long as it advertises itself with a name and agenda that clearly says, "We're biased in THIS direction", they'll only have a fraction of Conservatives as contributors (those who wish to publicly associate themselves with a conservative political cause), and nobody from elsewhere on the political spectrum.
Personally I'd consider a name change to be the first and most obviously necessary course of action, if they're interested in getting more contributors.
The problem with Conservapedia is that you have various trolls that edit articles in a Stephen Colbert-fashion; they put down information that is a satire/parody of what they ‘think’ that conservatives believe, so you can’t really be sure.
I just don’t use any of the Wiki-type sites for political information.
Yeah, I take everything with a grain of salt, as the saying goes.
I don’t rely on any one person or place for absolute.
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