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[ILUG] Re: wiki software

[ILUG] Re: wiki software

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun May 22 18:16:16 IST 2005


Quoting Rory Browne (rory.browne at gmail.com):

[snip your disagreeing]

> The reality is that wikipedia has developed into an encyclopedia with
> over 566k articles, meaning that it is approximately a factor of 5
> times larger than the next largest Encyclopedia(Britannica). Another
> reality is that I've seen very little(personally none) noise on
> wikipedia.

Wikipedia also has admins willing to lavish vast amount of time on
IP-blocking.  

Meanwhile, I have no sympathy at all for people unwilling to participate
in on-line projects without signing in, and doubt their contributions
would be missed.




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