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Post number 10939

ttrendel — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:58:36 -0800

Wikipedia is a free on-line encyclopedia that allows users to write entries about nearly any topic. MSNBC's take on it can be found here.

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:35:53 -0800

I'll stick to Everything2.com.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:46:09 -0800

h2g2

By: rodii

rodii — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:39:27 -0800

I'll stick to Everything2.com. OK. Why?

By: mmarcos

mmarcos — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:50:21 -0800

Yet isn't h2g2 a different animal? It feels more like a conversation. If I had to find out about the history of the Huns I would think of Wiki first. If, however, I wanted to find out how to cook a killer paella, I'd go to h2g2. Is it my perception only?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:08:25 -0800

There are a whole bunch of Wikis out there - delicate, beatiful things they can be too, with a good userbase. I even wrote one as an 'organic knowledge base info capture tool thingo' for field consultants and engineers at my last company. 'Course the software product I'd been working on that it was meant to support never made it out the door, so it was a little academic, but c'est la IT vie. Everything2 pissed me off after a while as everytime I went back I'd !lost points! because of what I perceived to be accurate but unpopular nodes I'd written. So now I just lurk once in a while. BTW, is this a doublepost? Feels like it, but I can't find anything by searching...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:09:25 -0800

Sorry, probably not a doublepost. Just remembered that I saw it on boingboing....

By: ttrendel

ttrendel — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:12:27 -0800

If it is a double-post I apaologize. I searched 5 or 6 times. Everything2.com seems like it contains more trivial posts than anything else. 4 of new posts were based around the band Korn. I haven't browsed around H2G2 enough to get an impression. Wiki seems to be structured just enough to thrive and become really useful without being overrun with bullshit.

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:54:59 -0800

The chief editor recently wrote a piece which appeared on k5.