[WikiEN-l] All information?

Thu Sep 15 14:12:58 UTC 2005

On 9/15/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/09/05, dpbsmith at verizon.net <dpbsmith at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > I thought that there was consensus that Wikipedia a) is an encyclopedia, and
> > b) is not "an indiscriminate collection of information."
> 
> I must say, I'm sure I've read: "Imagine a world where every single
> person is given free access to the sum of human knowledge. We don't
> have to imagine it. We're doing it" attributed to Jimbo, and I have
> never squared that with "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection
> of information."
> 
> Personally, I don't mind indiscriminate information - that's what the
> whole world wide web is. Search engines like Google have made it their
> mission to make it usable, and I don't see why Wikipedia need be any
> different in our little web-within-the-web. (Tagging - which is what
> our categorisation could be seen as - seems to be the other approach,
> but as far as I can tell that's more hype than useful).
> 
> 
> Dan
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You must know how much rubbish google searches tend to bring them all
up. You also appear to have forgotten that there is more than one
wikimedia project.

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geni