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Ringo
27/08/2009, 9:30 AM
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which can be amended by anyone, has introduced new measures that mean changes made to the pages of living people will have to be approved before they can be published.

Hopefully it will be more accurate now.

Sheridan
27/08/2009, 9:32 AM
Wikipedia has been boring as **** since the net Nazis got their hands on it. Could have been one of the greatest educational sources known to man, and was for a brief time. Now it's basically a repository for information that's available elsewhere.

DeLorean
27/08/2009, 9:55 AM
Wikipedia has been boring as **** since the net Nazis got their hands on it. Could have been one of the greatest educational sources known to man, and was for a brief time. Now it's basically a repository for information that's available elsewhere.

Yeah I suppose it's hard to get the balance right though. We want interesting, not widely known information but we want it to be true as well.

OneRedArmy
27/08/2009, 12:06 PM
Wikipedia has been boring as **** since the net Nazis got their hands on it. Could have been one of the greatest educational sources known to man, and was for a brief time. Now it's basically a repository for information that's available elsewhere.
But such is life! It was the flaws in human society that wrecked it. A bit like the economic assumption of rational behaviour being a pile of poo, the idea that everyone would contribute in an honest and selfless manner was inherently flawed.

DeLorean
27/08/2009, 12:18 PM
But such is life! It was the flaws in human society that wrecked it. A bit like the economic assumption of rational behaviour being a pile of poo, the idea that everyone would contribute in an honest and selfless manner was inherently flawed.

I thought you were heading towards something really deep after the first 2 sentences, certainly didn't expect to see "pile of poo" in the next line:D

pineapple stu
27/08/2009, 12:34 PM
One wonders how the Houyhnhnms would have fared with Wikipedia.