Comments on: On the Wikipedia chopping block: my thoughts

By: ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » This is the kind of stuff that feeds my Inner Gollum

Wed, 09 May 2007 02:08:30 +0000

[...] press mention that shows my ever being involved in such events – which, unfortunately, seems to be the measuring stick of any sort of notability (which Chris gets to keep due to the fact that he is a “notable developer” – hint: [...]

By: Zachary Houle

Zachary Houle — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:35:31 +0000

Well, it’s all a bizarre popularity contest, if you ask me. They were going to delete Toronto’s Zanta based on the recommendation from someone in Maine, but the editors kept him in, reportedly, as he fit the criteria for ‘street artist’. I guess he had enough fans who wrote in and begged to keep him in on his behalf.

Figure that one out. They keep a guy in who has been banned from Toronto’s downtown by police, but they want to toss a successful business woman.

Yep, that’s a societal comment right there, I think.

By: Jake McKee

Jake McKee — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:03:57 +0000

Hmmm… I just realized that my previous comment didn’t post. (that was on topic – and since you now can’t read it – quite brilliant )

The site took a really really long time to load each page. I tried with and without my OpenID.

Hopefully this comment goes live!

By: jeneane

jeneane — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:47:00 +0000

holy shit–there really IS something called googlepedia. i was half joking, figuring it wouldn’t take much for google to open up an offshoot pedia based for common search results.

By: jeneane

jeneane — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:44:09 +0000

don’t worry, googlepedia will do it soon enough.

By: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:31:28 +0000

Tara asks “Should there be an encyclopedia of people?”

I immediately thought that “peoplepedia.com” would be the perfect domain for this. I went there, and there’s a very small (and apparently dormant) biography directory — just 2 entries.

By: Bill Rodriguez

Bill Rodriguez — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:23:35 +0000

Well not you can post your deleted article here…

http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/

WikiDumper: The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” (Edited by Cliff Pickover.)

By: factoryjoe

factoryjoe — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:18:50 +0000

I’d agree with Kathy, except I’m prone to give away personal information about me. I guess if I ever get real notoriety I’ll be more concerned about wierdos tracking me down (like the WIkipedia editors).

Until then I’ll bask in relative obscurity — enough to stay out of sight of the wikipedia delete squad.

Oh, and I think Wikipedia needs to fragment at some point — like Amazon’s done with Endless… it’s nice to have a Walmart World of Data, but I want my own slice of what’s worthy to me to be put into a convenient encyclopaedic volume. I guess that’s what Google’s doing, but heck, I think this need is the future of librarianism.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:34:57 +0000

relax Tara .. with entries like:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Robots_of_Robot_Wars
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Wee_Herman

I think you need and deserve a better forum than worrying about the self righteous people who choose to attack you there.

By: http://www.claimid.com/missrogue

http://www.claimid.com/missrogue — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:07:46 +0000

Hey Kathy,

I don’t think I really do want to be in there…but interesting assessment. It’s like all fame. It sounds sexy, but it really is a pain in the ass.