Trust

Agree

 

it's like the dentist. if you don't understand what they're doing, you don't know what they're doing. and often, they don't either.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

 

You can't trust trust the china owned wikipedia......

 

If you're waiting for Wikipedia to be bought by your friendly neighborhood Internet giant, don't hold your breath. Wikipedia is a non-commercial website run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Francisco. We are supported by donations and grants, and our mission is to bring free knowledge to everyone.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wikipedia

Mike

 

WHERE did you get the idea that "I" was waiting or Wikipedia to be bought by your friendly neighborhood Internet giant????????

 

Two things can be true at once.

A 503.c3 CAN be a despotic, disreputable, unreliable burning trash-heap that preys on misinformation/disinformation.
They can ALSO be a convenient and accurate source about a rhyming Russian proverb.

Wikipedia IS, after all - WIKIPEDIA.
I was going to playfully poke at them for the cultural misappropriation, but they probably think that they're "above" all of that....and I'm from Indiana, so I don't have a canine in that ruckus.

That pretty much makes them as good (OR as bad) as the $cientific community - or? - many 503.c3s.

Like stealerships...mechanics...politicians....peer-review $cience, etc.....they can (and do!) profit from people who do not check their work.

I'm sure that that there are some pretty good folks over at wiki, and I'm sure that they THINK that they call balls and strikes in a "fair and balanced" way.
In other words...the Wikis are sorta like dealership mechanics in that they sometimes profit from people's reluctance to do the hard work of trying to gather information for themselves.

HOWEVER (comma!!!!!!!!) UNLIKE TOYOTA?
I've never caught them trying to fleece me for bucks.
I'm not even sure that they CAN, but that's me.

ACTUAL mileage WILL vary.

Don't like 'em?
Don't pay 'em!

 

One other thing ... it's better not to think of 'wiki' as a nice short word that means Wikipedia.

A wiki is a piece of software, that lets you build a web site that works a certain way. There are all sorts of examples, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, ikiwiki, MediaWiki (the one Wikipedia happens to use), XWiki, and on and on. There is even one built into this site (look at the menu bar up top, third from the left), though it could stand to get used more. Most places I've ever worked have had wikis (yes, plural, rarely just one). Check the web sites for a few prominent software projects and you will likely find there is a wiki there for hashing out design and development.

'Wiki' is something that the world has countless thousands of. Wikipedia is ... one particular project, that happens to operate one of those.

 

I keep forgetting.
If lotsa people do it, it's not insensitive to not-lotsa-people....

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So, if Jimmy Wales was running an encyclopedia project on Excel, and you had taken to calling it "spreadsheet", and somebody made the simple point that "spreadsheet" is a basic tool used daily for thousands of purposes and you were just plain misusing the word as if it were a synonym for one specific project that happens to use one, you would respond with some kind of riff on insensitivity and Chief Wahoo?

 

I just quoted, in its entirety, their own paragraph about their ownership.

Mike

 

I suppose there's a case to be made that the [quote]...[/quote] markup could have made that more obvious.

It's kind of what I was guessing about halfway through the paragraph, but I didn't go there to check.

 

Only if they were "sensitive" about it.....

Honestly, I was just poking fun....

 

Maybe it's not so much the joke, as the way you tell it.