•Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wikipedia. And It's on ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ -35 minutes ago
Okay, so you've been editing Wikipedia for a while now, but with all that content and all those participants, do you understand how the information behemoth ...

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LOL. Longtime über-wikipedian Charles Matthews (more hand edits than anybody), and also longtime editors Ben Yates and Phoebe Ayers, explain what articles you shouldn't write on Wikipedia, like one about the street you live on. Right out of WP:NOTABLE

Except it's wrong. Like nobody there ever does THAT there. I'm amazed that Matthews, who is an excellent editor and has contributed more content than I ever will, is so amazingly clueless about the content of this thing. There's even a streets project, which is doing very, very well. Perhaps he's keeping his eyes squinched shut, for the "official" public paper copy about how to edit?

Damn, the amazing power of humans to see only what they want to. And when they get up in public to make a speech, to say things that aren't true, and that they KNOW aren't true, for the sake of appearances. Like the guy who has to make a speech about sex for high school students. God forbid he should say anything approximately actually true. THey'd fire him.

Never fails to amaze.

Charles, you Kool Aid guzzling math wonk. It would have done you no harm to write a book which is more honest about how Wikipedia works. No harm would have been done, even if you didn't name names.

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This article, which actually reviews a public work about Wikipedia, and some editors and wikipedia policies, was approved by Milton Roe.