Comments on: In Response to Wikipedia Bashing: Just Remember The Good http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/07/07/in-response-to-wikipedia-bashing-just-remember-the-good/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:51:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Marion Jensen http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/07/07/in-response-to-wikipedia-bashing-just-remember-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4108 Marion Jensen Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:24:36 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/?p=955#comment-4108 Congratulations, David, on spending several hours tearing down something that other people have built. It must make you feel very proud, very big, and very powerful. Do not worry about the fact that a wiki saves every entry and change that is made. Do not worry that it is very easy to change from one saved version to another. So when these 'geeks' you speak of see that you are entering in bogus information, they will, with very little effort, revert every entry you made and block your account. Sure, you can spend another 'several hours' messing things back up, but it will only take a few seconds to again undo your work. This isn't like vandalism, where it takes longer to fix the problem you spent minutes making. It's the opposite. So feel smug, go mess up more, because that is why Wikipedia works. It is immune to your childish behavior. Congratulations, David, on spending several hours tearing down something that other people have built. It must make you feel very proud, very big, and very powerful.

Do not worry about the fact that a wiki saves every entry and change that is made. Do not worry that it is very easy to change from one saved version to another. So when these ‘geeks’ you speak of see that you are entering in bogus information, they will, with very little effort, revert every entry you made and block your account. Sure, you can spend another ’several hours’ messing things back up, but it will only take a few seconds to again undo your work.

This isn’t like vandalism, where it takes longer to fix the problem you spent minutes making. It’s the opposite. So feel smug, go mess up more, because that is why Wikipedia works. It is immune to your childish behavior.

]]> By: David http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/07/07/in-response-to-wikipedia-bashing-just-remember-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4107 David Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:08:46 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/?p=955#comment-4107 Speaking as someone who yesterday spent several hours posting untrue information to various wikipedia entries, I'd say people should be very careful using wikipedia as a resource for anything other than what a bunch of geeks typed in. Speaking as someone who yesterday spent several hours posting untrue information to various wikipedia entries, I’d say people should be very careful using wikipedia as a resource for anything other than what a bunch of geeks typed in.

]]> By: Tom http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/07/07/in-response-to-wikipedia-bashing-just-remember-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4092 Tom Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:13:27 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/?p=955#comment-4092 RAmen! You can find all kinds of interesting stuff there. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster RAmen! You can find all kinds of interesting stuff there. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

]]> By: Bob Caswell http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/07/07/in-response-to-wikipedia-bashing-just-remember-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4087 Bob Caswell Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:58:43 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/?p=955#comment-4087 Amen. It seems like Wikipedia always has some sort of pending negative press/commentary against it, but I use it all the time and haven't really seen directly any major problem with it. It's fantastic. Amen. It seems like Wikipedia always has some sort of pending negative press/commentary against it, but I use it all the time and haven’t really seen directly any major problem with it. It’s fantastic.

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