Today's seething idiocy
This entry was posted on 05-23-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.
From: Nonbovine Ruminations: "Well, the WikiDrama is in high swing today. (Apologies, but I am not going to litter this post with links. If you want to find the originals on Wikipedia, do it yourself.)
It all started with an article about some fat Chinese kid who has apparently been made the subject of Internet ridicule (certainly not a new story; happens all time). Some Internet "meme" addict obviously created the article. A deletion discussion ensued, which was eventually closed precipitously on the grounds that the article violated the "biography of living persons" policy (which it quite clearly did). However, badlydrawnjeff (hereinafter, BDJ) objected to this and initiated a series of procedural maneuvers all intended to bring the article back." Seething Idiocy
My Comments: As I have written about before, such use of resources could be said to be sub-optimum. Could a competing project more efficiently use its resources and therefore displace Wikipedia? Will such problems grow to a point of placing too much drag on the project? WP can handle a lot of drag right now, but over time, I doubt that will remain true. WP benefited from a lot of energy associated with doing something new and seemingly important. That will probably fade over time.
Also new to the website is the above author's RSS feed. She is Kelly Martin and her blog is called: Nonbovine Ruminations. See her feed on my page 6: Martin
