Wiki Style

Tuesday December 6, 2005 - 2:35AM EDT

It makes me so angry that all of a sudden there is coverage of bogus information on Wikipedia. First off, anyone with any scruples knows that you don't use Wikipedia as the end all source for accurate info. You need to be somewhat educated already to be able to have a decent idea of what is true and what is false. Most users know this so when some moroons who don't know what the internet is discover the wikipedia I have no sympathy for their complaints. Besides all that stuff there is one thing that should be brought up among all this discussion of wikipedia inaccuracy. There is nothing like it. What I mean is that there is no place on the internet for one to freely access what is essentially trying to be a compendium of all human knowledge. This is because the modern print publishing system guards knowledge fiercly as a profit machine. Google just wants to stick excerpts of books on the net and they get hell for it. Forget encyclopedia makers. They only target a small sub section of knowledge and usually want you to pay for it. That is what people should be talking about. Not the inaccuracies in wikipedia but why in the hell hasn't there been an effort to put all human knowledge in a freely accessible place. Sure there are a lot of things that are in contention but there are also a whole lot of things that everyone agrees on and would be perfect for wikipedia. The publishers and academia should pool all their knowledge into one place. Who wouldn't benefit from having all human knowledge gathered and verified in one place?