Oh, now THAT'S funny. Smiling, Emily On Aug 19, 2009, at 8:19 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/17 Keith Old <keith...@gmail.com>: > >> The Christian Science Monitor reports/ >> http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/08/17/wikipedia-blows-past-3-million-english-articles/ > > > WIKIALITY, The Tenderloin, Saturday -- The online encyclopedia, > knowledge base, social networking site, essay repository, blog, search > engine, news aggregator, dessert wax and floor topping Wikipedia has > reached its three millionth article and ceased all editing. > > Palo Alto Research Center reported that only 1% of edits by random > users were kept. "They were all unspeakable shit," said burnt-out > administrator WikiFiddler451. "All of them. No, I'm not exaggerating. > Go to Special:Newpages and read a day's entries some time. You'll > start by deleting the whole database, before you get onto plotting the > doom of humanity. Christ, why go on?" > > Recent media coverage has highlighted the "inclusionist/deletionist" > wars of 2005, including enquiries from Endemol looking for a > "passionate deletionist" to join Big Brother 11, "preferably one with > big tits." It is thought that Wikipedia could have had ten million > articles by now had they not viciously abused their editorial powers > by deleting your valuable contributions about you, your teacher at > school, your garage band or your dog or the many cameraphone pictures > you uploaded of your penis. > > "Everything's already been written," said WikiFiddler451, burning the > last of his Star Wars figurines before leaving for his rehabilitation > course in social interaction skills and basics of hygiene. "Do you > have any idea how big THREE MILLION articles is? A BILLION GODDAMN > WORDS! Are you going to read more than a droplet of that in your life? > No you aren't. You're following your goddamn Twitter. > > "But hey, only two million articles are The Simpsons in popular > culture or Doctor Who in popular culture. No-one actually reads this > stuff, they just write it. We have LiveJournal for stuff people write > that no-one wants to read. 'Oh, I wandered lonely as a cheeseburger/ > My passionate angst filling my Coke with darkness.' Or Knol. KNOL! > I'll just Bing that one." > > Shell-shocked veterans of Wikipedia are at a loss now that it's all > over -- wandering the alleyways of the Internet, mumbling to > themselves about "ANI" and "we had to delete the village in order to > save it," threatening the policemen moving them on with "arbitration" > and bursting into tears when the policeman answers "citation needed." > Mere children, sent into the culture wars to save knowledge from > horrors they barely understood, and coming home as crippled wrecks. No > victory parades for these brave men and women. There is only so much > Citizendium, Uncyclopedia and 4chan can do for these child heroes. > With your help, we can build Potemkin wikis for these honorable > veterans, where they can safely ban and unban, revert and edit-war, > and correct the naming of Danzig^WGdansk^WDanzig^WGdansk without the > possibility of damage to actual human readers. Please donate so that > they may never bug you again. > > > (posted by me at http://is.gd/2opuE ) > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l