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Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Writing about: Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK

Well, Wikipedia exists in a state of quantum significance flux. It’s simultaneously a shining, flawless collection of incontrovertible information, and a debased pile of meaningless words thrown together by uneducated lemurs with political agendas. It simply cannot exist in any state between these two extremes. You can test this yourself by expressing a reasonable opinion about the site in any public space. Whatever words you type, they will be interpreted by readers as supporting one of these two opposing views.

I like the idea of wikipedia. Really. But this piece by Lore Sjöberg really sums it up well…