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Friday, May 04, 2007

Wikitravel seems to be coming into its own. It just won a webby award and it's developing cool articles like Hitchhiking in Japan.

@ 5/04/2007 07:09:00 PM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The intelligent article on wikipedia is a mess. It is created by mainly atheists and anti-theists. One editor orangemarlin is a megalomaniac who thinks he owns the article. He is an embarrassment. They should get rid of him

May 05, 2007 5:30 PM
Ben Yates said...

I think you mean the Intelligent Design article? It doesn't seem too bad to me, but I'm not that involved in the topic.

May 06, 2007 2:36 AM
Ben Yates said...

Also, you have to do pretty egregious stuff (commercial spamming, etc.) to be banned from wikipedia outright -- it's analogous to excommunication or something. An editor's influence can be undercut in other ways, though.

They should get rid of him

There's no "they", per se -- Wikipedia has a system of authority, but very flat, hierarchically speaking, and mostly organic -- more like the popularity scale in a high school cafeteria than the chain of command in the military (though not very much like either). You can become a part of Wikipedia very easily -- just sit down at the cafeteria table, as it were. It's a little like a public park: the "members" are whoever happens to be there. And maybe there are a few forest rangers or something.

(Alright, enough metaphors. Time for bed.)

May 06, 2007 2:42 AM
Unknown said...

We actually don't have an Intelligent Design article on Wikitravel. Wikitravel and Wikipedia are only loosely related.

May 06, 2007 10:58 AM
Ben Yates said...

I think Anonymous was just using this post as a place to air his grievance.

(Hey, it's Evan Prodromou! I'm going to pretend he reads Wikipedia Blog every day and didn't just see "Wikitravel" in a keyword tracker. :P )

May 06, 2007 12:26 PM

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