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- vsujohn2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+63Nearly all of them are college students at 2am the day before a paper is due. XD
- fatfonzie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Correct or wrong, Wikipedia is one of the best things the Internet should be about...sharing knowledge.
Congrats Wikipedia! - Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31What people forget is that wikipedia has the possibility to be INACCURATE SOMETIMES MAYBE! we have to ban this thing from the internets quick before our impressionable children see it!
- Visk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24You use the CITED ARTICLES in the wikipedia entry; not the entry itself!
- evileyetmc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I've done that...but I would have thought it would have cracked the top 10 before now. If other people use it nearly as much as I do, that would definitely be the case.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Well deserved. Wikipedia is a refreshing excepetion to the trash that plagues the internet.
- Rudrasksha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I misread the title as "Wikipedia breaks into 10 sites"
- DigitalN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11that was debunked, they aren't actually closing, she just said that if they completely stopped collection money, they would shut down in 4 months even with the 1.5 or however many million they raised.
- stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Why? If i have google as my homepage, its much quicker to search it and find the wiki on it.
Sometimes i will even type "subject wiki" just to make it come up. - delton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wikipedia : "Making the internet not suck !" and just as accurate as Britannica !
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html - alecperkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Blanking pages is a piece of cake, but also the most obvious of vandalism. That sort of edit usually shows up in the recent change log as "replaced page with X" and is almost always reverted immediately. You can see the history of the page; the vandalism is a few edits down. Note it was corrected within a minute. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillary_Rodham_Clinton&action=history
- Weaslecoup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+82 a.m. before a paper is due? you lazy procrastinating bastards. I have never once plagiarized from Wikipedia less then 24 hours before the paper is due. This is my personal honor code.
- weizilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what are the other 9 sites?
- raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2College Students,
I'm a recent graduate (May, 06). Let me give you some advice:
USE WIKIPEDIA. There, I said it. But don't trust the articles themselves. Read them as a summary, and use the citations as a starting point. Use the contents as stuff to further research. It can save you hours, and it's perfectly legitimate. Just don't trust the wiki itself as a professional journal.
It's really just common sense, but it has to be said. - ninjacell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should differentiate between the official Wikipedia site, and the sites that build upon the wiki-system to generate wikipedia-like sites for their own domains of interest, such as the infovis-wiki for Information Visualisation (http://www.infovis-wiki.net), etc.
- MinaSulo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Great, unless you are unlucky enough to come across the article when it says "PPP (penis to penis protocol) was designed to let networkers have fun in their spare time," because I can't tell the difference at 2AM. Regardless, I wish there would have been Wikipedia when I was in college!
- superKduper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3OMG! There's even an article about DIGG on Wikipedia!
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Digg - jayayeem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wikipedia entries seem to have crept up in the Google search rankings lately... I wonder if this has increased their site visits in the US
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Only problem is most colleges discourage the use of Wikipedia, due to possible inaccuracies. Still a great site to do research though, because usually most of the good articles have good links.
- markr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I don't think that it will ever shut down - but they might be forced into advertising one day...
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That show is still on? :/
- DrScott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Except that it's not going to be around for much longer, since they're financially going down the tubes...
/sarc - RonAcierno, on 02/07/2008, -2/+1any chance of Google buying them? I would like to see a Wiki tab were the Web, Images, Videos are.
- budlight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1wikipedia at work: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pearl+necklace&btnG=Google+Search
- budlight, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2It's in the best interest engines of the search engines not to let wikipedia rank for every term imaginable. The founder of wikipedia has already stated his interest in starting his own search engine (a user editable one, which is asking for spam in my opinion) . Sure it won't be a part of the wikimedia foundation, but I guarantee you his notability will be give it a chance to compete (still just a small chance though) with google or yahoo.
Furthermore wikipedia often ranks well in google for articles that are simply stubs and aren't always highly patrolled. This is a big deal. One fun thing to do with wikipedia is to visit the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges page and watch what articles get edited. Some are highly amusing, and you have to question just where would we be without articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_beings_referred_to_as_fairies - GameGod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Interestingly enough, Wikipedia has been a Top 10 site for Canadians for a while now:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=country&lang=none
I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that. :) - mehss, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4It just works so well!
- physik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Delton:
Wikipedia may have a wealth of good content, but it is nowhere near as accurate as Britannica. I suggest you do some research (and skip past the Wikipedia entries) on Google. In a nutshell, reading and completely trusting Wikipedia is the same as believing what your neighbor's 12 year old kid tells you about astrophysics (it's probably all BS). As someone said earlier, it's a good idea to use the references at the bottom of each Wiki page, but Wikipedia should not be implicitly trusted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4840340.stm
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6317246.html - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"Nearly all of them are college students at 2am the day before a paper is due. XD"
That couldnt be truer. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Go WIKI!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0ready ready ready.. juts give us a clear list of the top ten.
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0lots of shows are "still on".
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0You guys should go watch the ending of tonights American Dad.
- schmiggyjk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Possible, yes.
Accurate, that would be an affirmative.
At least the editor wasn't lying.
Someone care to drive the Mac truck? - kufurex, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Wikipedia is great and all, but the search engines have to figure out how to keep it from showing up for every single search. Even if one is trying to shop and searches for an item, Wikipedia is in the top 10 results. That is silly.
- nowayhoseb, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1http://www.flickr.com/photos/39572448@N00/395010666/
Found that on Wikipedia today. Is this even possible? - HotGore, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Wasn't this on digg yesterday?
- axisds, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1To bad Wikipedia is in danger of shutting down. It is estimated if things keep going the way they are it will close in 4 months. Hopefully, this milestone will bring Wikipedia a much needed financial boost.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+1"Nearly all of them are college students at 2am the day before a paper is due. XD "
Been there many o' times myself ;)
- Elliot
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