Wikipedia

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.internet.services.wiki, alt.free.newsservers, news.software.readers, alt.usenet.kooks
Subject	Wikipedia
Followup-To	comp.internet.services.wiki
Date	2013-04-17 16:53 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<878v4hf697.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> (permalink)
References	(8 earlier) <kkbhqd$jst$2@reader1.panix.com> <CD8EDC33.1914A%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <kkc53m$dij$1@reader1.panix.com> <CD8EEB4D.1916F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <6gc605.m99.19.8@news.alt.net>

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>>>>> 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.)

	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.)

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

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