Re: Wikipedia

From	cipher <cipher@nospamforme.org>
Newsgroups	comp.internet.services.wiki, alt.free.newsservers, news.software.readers, alt.usenet.kooks
Subject	Re: Wikipedia
Date	2013-04-17 17:55 +0000
Organization	1st Virginia Volunteers/CeSium Brigade
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:53:40 +0000, Ivan Shmakov Inscribed upon the Golden
Tablets of Usenet thusly:

>>>>>> cipher  <cipher@nospamforme.org> writes:
> 
> 	[Cross-posting to news:comp.internet.services.wiki and setting
> 	Followup-To: there.  Even though Wikipedia "is not a wiki."]
> 
> [...]
> 
>  >>>> Most Usenet forums are considered pure text...
> 
>  >>> First, git, its not Usenet, its The USENet.
> 
>  >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet> ----- Usenet is a worldwide
>  >> distributed Internet discussion system.  -----
> 
>  > Anyone quoting or believing in wikipedia has already lost.
> 
> 	Not only I've used Wikipedia (almost four of them, by this time)
> 	numerous times, -- I've even recommended my students to do the 
same. 
> 	(For the few years I was an instructor, anyway.)

This probably explains why you're no longer an instructor...


> 	It's as reliable as an encyclopedia could be these days.
> 
> 	(And no, I'm /not/ advocating in favor of referencing /any/
> 	encyclopedia whatsoever in a scientific paper.)

WP is simply not accepted for *any* serious work.  Period.
It is OK for grade school book reports however...


> PS.  Why, I even edit Wikipedias from time to time.  Check, e. g.:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ivan_Shmakov
> http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ivan_Shmakov
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ivan_Shmakov

What a waste of time, contributing to a worthless endeavor such as WP.



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