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Found a link to an article on El Mercurio’s Web site (El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper) about Conservapedia. Google’s translation service is almost laughably bad on this article — how does “Bizarro” become “Gallant”? — and Babelfish’s is worse, so I’m resorting to my own (rusty) knowledge of Spanish to interpret what [...]
The word “wiki” will be entering the Oxford English Dictionary, that great bastion of the Mother Tongue.
This is especially cool considering the “reading process” used to populate the OED.
Relevant quote from the OED’s own history piece:
Many of the most consistently productive readers were not renowned scholars, but interested laypeople.
*pause*
Now think of the people who contribute [...]
So, Conservapedia. “We think Wikipedia is biased against our viewpoint, so we’re going to start our own.”
Deliberately politicized wikis are not new — hello, dKosopedia — and wikiforks are not new either — hi, Wikinfo. Conservapedia explicitly lists its beefs with WP, though, and intends to supplant Wikipedia as the definitive information source. [...]
So most of you have probably seen or heard mention of Wikipedia in the press lately.
First, the Essjay incident: a Wikipedian rose to prominence, getting himself loads of responsibilities including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights and a spot on the Arbitration Committee. All of this was done while said Wikipedian was pseudonymous.
The problem, [...]
Went to Toronto between Christmas and New Year’s. Had a wonderful time in a wonderful city. Saw great things, rode great transit, got great exercise, ate great food, got legally married (which is also great). Didn’t want to leave. Now discussing a move there.
Returned to work with slightly different responsibilities — [...]
Jeem is: 29. Gay. Scrappy. Prone to flights of fancy. Addicted to licorice. Deeply involved in Wikipedia, sometimes to his own detriment. Word-hound. PGP-public-key-poster. Hard-gainer. Half-ass-vegetarian. Hyphen-lover. Illegal husband. Geek-of-all-trades. Occasional blogger.
