Comments on: Wikipedia, DTE, and Animal Buddies http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/ Life after "Death To The Extremist" Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Tobu http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-631 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:22:28 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-631 I too have encountered the notability police. It goes like that: find something, want to learn more on wikipedia, do some edits, check back in a few months, and pfuit, you get to read the deletion logs. Even an alexa rank of 20k (it is at 4k recently) didn't help. I too have encountered the notability police. It goes like that: find something, want to learn more on wikipedia, do some edits, check back in a few months, and pfuit, you get to read the deletion logs.
Even an alexa rank of 20k (it is at 4k recently) didn’t help.

]]> by: chad http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-318 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:48:25 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-318 It's also a little mind-boggling because of the way wikipedia is commonly used-- it's not as if there are a limited number of pages to be crammed between two covers. I don't go looking for good (read: notable) comics via wikipedia-- if I want to read a new comic I find the "links" section of comics I already like to be a much more reliable method. So when I do use wikipedia it is typically following a link from a webcomic to its own wiki page, out of curiosity. It is also ridiculous that a major internet thing is delteing documentation of people's legitimate personal effort while maintaining (as you noted) slavish detail when it comes to the eighth generation of, say, pokemon. It’s also a little mind-boggling because of the way wikipedia is commonly used– it’s not as if there are a limited number of pages to be crammed between two covers. I don’t go looking for good (read: notable) comics via wikipedia– if I want to read a new comic I find the “links” section of comics I already like to be a much more reliable method. So when I do use wikipedia it is typically following a link from a webcomic to its own wiki page, out of curiosity. It is also ridiculous that a major internet thing is delteing documentation of people’s legitimate personal effort while maintaining (as you noted) slavish detail when it comes to the eighth generation of, say, pokemon.

]]> by: fluffy http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-288 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:31:52 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-288 Wikipedia is so retarded. Every single episode of South Park has its own detailed article. There's huge articles about Tails (from Sonic the Hedgehog) which talk about every single version of his backstory and what it means in a greater literary context. I use Wikipedia for looking up pop culture stuff and, on rare occasion, reminders of various mathematics stuff that I already knew but couldn't quite remember the equations for. And often their equations are useless because they won't define the units that go into the various parts anyway (like whether something in a physics equation refers to a tangent velocity or radians per second, for example). The only reason Wikipedia's even worth worrying about is because they've now gotten the #1 search result for basically anything you can search about. They have done an incredible job of gaming Google. Wikipedia is so retarded. Every single episode of South Park has its own detailed article. There’s huge articles about Tails (from Sonic the Hedgehog) which talk about every single version of his backstory and what it means in a greater literary context.

I use Wikipedia for looking up pop culture stuff and, on rare occasion, reminders of various mathematics stuff that I already knew but couldn’t quite remember the equations for. And often their equations are useless because they won’t define the units that go into the various parts anyway (like whether something in a physics equation refers to a tangent velocity or radians per second, for example).

The only reason Wikipedia’s even worth worrying about is because they’ve now gotten the #1 search result for basically anything you can search about. They have done an incredible job of gaming Google.

]]> by: Matt http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-235 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:02:23 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-235 Oh, man. I started that article. It's my largest wikipedia contribution to date. Oh, man. I started that article. It’s my largest wikipedia contribution to date.

]]> by: 2chey http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-225 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:57:08 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/03/22/wikipedia-dte-and-animal-buddies/#comment-225 I think Scott at PVP and some other people did a whole podcast on this subject a few weeks back, just in case you missed it. And have to agree DTE should stay considering the comparatively minute trivia available on wikipedia. I think Scott at PVP and some other people did a whole podcast on this subject a few weeks back, just in case you missed it. And have to agree DTE should stay considering the comparatively minute trivia available on wikipedia.

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