Comments on: Yet another Wikipedia death notice

By: A Wikipedia dedicated to shopping » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work

A Wikipedia dedicated to shopping » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:51:21 +0000

[...] Obviously, there are going to be issues with something like Amapedia, as there are with Wikipedia, which has been involved in all sorts of scandals that have to do with accuracy, vandalism, and accusations of elitism. As a small example, the Amapedia entry for camera says the word is “Italian for room.” Close, but no cigar. Camera is actually Latin for room, although Italian is derived from Latin. [...]

By: Hello World

Hello World — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

entry can easily browse every single change made to it and the citations to justify them. Just a generally bizarre column, overall, which in my opinion is a better polemic for Wikipedia than against it. Some examples of how misguided this column is:Mathew Ingramâ€™s perspective, Open Culture, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post. Itâ€™s true, though, that Wikipediaâ€™s value as a source of news information is limited. It

By: Hello World

Hello World — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

an entry can easily browse every single change made to it and the citations to justify them. Just a generally bizarre column, overall, which in my opinion is a better polemic for Wikipedia than against it. Some examples of how misguided this column is:Mathew Ingram’s perspective, Open Culture, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post, this Boing Boing post.It’s true, though, that Wikipedia’s value as a source of news information is limited. It’s neat that