Oh good grief, you could say the same thing about the inside of a shelled peanut. 
Posted on 12/27/2008 9:56:08 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Dear Reader,
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003.
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I think so. I admit I use it if I need to quickly know the synopsis of a movie to decide whether it is worth seeing or not. It is also useful if I need to quickly see something like the top speed of a type of car or something like that (something that isn’t up to debate).
That comes to $25000 per loser, including the chief loser.
Maybe Soros can chip in to the carefully monitored revisionist propaganda machine?
In a word; yes.
Misinformation is worse than lies.
But of course the ignorant never know that they're ignorant so it works out --- sorta. Positive negative feedback reinforcement.
Dude!
You need to get out more.
And put down the crack pipe.
I agree. Even political articles can be kept fairly neutral if contributions are well sourced. This really does not apply to the higher profile ones, because there are some obsessives with agendas who will watch their pet articles 24/7 to keep them biased, but I have edited political articles - even during the 2008 election cycle - and my edits are still there.
I think in reading Wiki you just need to remember to keep your BS radar up. It’s a microcosm of the Internet as a whole: not everything you’ll read there is true, but it is not terribly difficult to weed it out when you follow the links.
Oh good grief, you could say the same thing about the inside of a shelled peanut.
those are the ones that the Lefties haven’t gotten around to monitoring constantly like the ones on global warming, AIDS, evolution, etc.
Those 23 employees are incredibly active at trolling certain pages on an hour by hour basis. That might leave them enough time to get to the rest of the sacred cows on the left.
Read Wikepedia's entry about Free Republic. No bias there, huh?
You're better of going to IMDB.
I find the ratings and the reviews pretty close to what I think of movies. Except for "The Godfather" winning every best of all time movies polls.
My daughter’s middle school does not allow Wikipedia to be used as a citation in the papers kids write.
The big boys get the expense account. I’m sure meetings are held in the Bahamas...or the like.
Actually, the site is a useful source of information - as long as the subject is not controversial! If you want to know what the Fields Medal is or who Kevin bacon is, then it is a good source. If it is anything political, controversial or regarding things like “Global Warming(TM)”, forget it. The bias is distinctly left.
Wikipedia - a synonym for “could well be true”.
If you want to shift wikipedia in a conservative direction, then you should donate and send a comment with your concerns, quit complaining, sign up for an account, and get to editing. It’s a lot like education. Yes, there are quite a few barriers to jobs for conservatives in education right now, but the more conservatives you get employed the fewer barriers there will be.
I didn’t attach a value to it. I stand by my statement. It is absolutely unique.
So edit it.
Duh.
That’s $260,869.57 per employee. I’d say someone has ‘Madeoff’ with a lot of wiki’s money if they can’t pay the staff.
The errors are not piddling and on any topic with political overtones, the bias is light years away from scattered; it's real< it"s overwhelming, and it's in your face.
The editor who has taken charge of the FR article is named Eschoir. It's a lot like having Osama bin Laden in charge of the article about Israel.
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