Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com> wrote: Rossi is infuriating. And his caps lock key is stuck. >
Yes and Yes! You don't know the half of it. If you think he is infuriating on the web, wait until you meet him in person. Still, he is a sweetie-pie. Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: My guess is that Wiki will apologize and make the corrections as we speak. > May bee. See the famous article featuring Randy from Boise: The Wikipedia FAQK http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/commentary/alttext/2006/04/70670 *Is it true that anyone can contribute?* Sure, Wikipedia is absolutely open to absolutely anyone contributing to absolutely anything! As long as you haven't been banned, or the article you're contributing to hasn't been locked, or there isn't a group of people waiting to delete anything you write, or you don't make the same change more than three times in one day, or the subject of the article hasn't decided to send scary lawyer letters to Wikipedia, or you haven't pissed Jimbo Wales off real bad. It's all about freedom. Randy makes his entrance! *But why should I contribute to an article? I'm no expert.* That's fine. The Wikipedia philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment. - Jed
