Pogledajte ovaj članak: Why Does Wikipedia Suck on Science?
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Wikipedia sucks for deleting stuff, for failing to delete stuff, for taking action in a dictatorial manner without allowing debate, for engaging in too much time-wasting debate instead of useful action, for being too fascistic, for being too anarchistic, for being too highbrow, too lowbrow, too middlebrow, too left-wing, too right-wing, too pro-American, too anti-American, too academic, too anti-academic, too pop-cultural and too anti-pop-cultural; for airing too much dirty laundry in public, for trying to shove its flaws under the carpet; because it’s an unstoppable juggernaut, because it’s an unstable mess that’s about to collapse; it’s capitalist, it’s communist; Jimbo screws it up by exercising his personal whims, Jimbo is a do-nothing figurehead who refuses to act at all; critics get harrassed, critics get ignored; people get banned unfairly, people don’t get banned who deserve it; its mailing lists and IRC rooms have nothing but idle, pointless, off-topic chitchat; its mailing lists and IRC rooms are where all the important policy decisions get made to the exclusion of people who participate on the actual discussion pages.
Što je tu tako fascinantno? U načelu, svatko može nešto napisati. No kvaliteta nekog editiranog teksta je svakako - u recenzijama. Naime, postoji jedan “mali” problem sa wiki projektima - tko je taj tko može biti validni recenzent?
“The truth was there three revisions ago”, zgodna je poštapalica wikitruth.info , no pitanje je u kojoj se to mjeri odnosi na znanost. Kompleksna pitanje često zanimaju ljude koji su za to zainteresirani. No da li su objektivni? U biti, oko “znanstvenih” definicija češće se zanimaju “znanstvenici” pa je problem manji.
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You have two choices, at this juncture. You can come to the horrifying conclusion that Wikipedia’s open-editing rule means that not only can people work together to improve it, they can also sit around masturbating out jargon and acting like school marms on everyone else who is trying to help. You can check the bookmarks on your browser, find some pornography, and blow out of Wikipedia’s editing window as fast as you can. Check on Wikipedia’s entries every once in a while, take away the basic facts, don’t get hung up on it, and stick to places where shit makes sense.
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