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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Our Love Affair with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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“Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its twenty million articles (over 3.79 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the ...



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thekohser
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Any type of vandalism or gross inaccuracy is generally removed so quickly by the vast community of editors that most users will never encounter any of these— ever.


What a boob.
Abd
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Numerous other editing scandals have taken place; most of them have been well-publicized due to political campaign spinning.
If this was written by a journalism student, give the boob an F. That sentence wouldn't survive examination on Wikipedia unless it was written by an administrator. It's superficially well-written, but, underneath, incoherent. And as to fact, uh.... {{citation needed}}
thekohser
The comments are funny.
EricBarbour
C'mon, he's just a student. Probably got 2 points extra credit for writing that.

Once again: book. If there is a book on sale at his college bookstore, that completely
contravenes his nonsense, he will learn.
Malik Shabazz
QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 17th November 2011, 12:00am) *

The comments are funny.

Has anybody written an article about Wikipedia to which you have not felt obliged to add a comment?
thekohser
QUOTE(Malik Shabazz @ Fri 18th November 2011, 12:10am) *

QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 17th November 2011, 12:00am) *

The comments are funny.

Has anybody written an article about Wikipedia to which you have not felt obliged to add a comment?


Sure, the ones where comments aren't solicited, and the ones that are written factually and from an honest perspective. (Although, when those rare articles do come along, I still feel obliged to add a comment of support and encouragement.)

Currently on the Connecticut College Voice comment system, my job security is being threatened by someone known only as "Briann".
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