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Criticism of Wikitruth
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You can depend on Wikipedians to accomplish two things: Always keep bickering, and never shut up. The whole enterprise basically runs on intellectual conflict and procedural one-upsmanship, or, as we say here over at the 'truth, bitching and ballsacks.
Since "success" on Wikipedia is measured by how long you can keep your uniquely crafted Booger of Viewpoint lodged into the Nose of an Entry, there is a resulting belief that if your little shack of logic can withstand the endless fart-wind of other Wikipedians, you are the winner. Seriously, you get the prize. You beat the game.
Unfortunately, there's a bit of an exchange rate problem with your victory tokens collected by the handful for a thousand petty wiki-battles. That is, they're basically worthless when you step out into the cold, harsh world of other websites.
Values and morals that exist on Wikipedia ("if I can argue it into submission my opinion is valid", or "once I weigh in on a topic, the battle is basically over") just don't fly out here in other locations that don't have a rapidly-shifting set of policies that any half-drunk humanities major with a mobile phone can fuck up.
We already have a Frequently Whined Questions, but apparently we need a Frequently Leveled Criticisms. Here's the most obvious statements made by people who think: "I merely say this... and the question of Wikitruth is answered".
[edit] "You are so small and tiny and little and eensy weensy."
Well, yeah. We're less than 20 people, O Maestro of Numbers. We hand-craft our articles out of the finest materials, ensure they are built to handle vicious weather and hot evenings, and then we sprinkle on the Funny. We change each other's shit, but we're not locked in a 24-hour Battle of the Network Penii to keep our stuff from degrading like a dead cat. We therefore don't have a billion articles of ever-shifting crap, and you know when you read a page from us it won't inherently blow. It's likely here for a good reason. Remember those days?
[edit] "You don't let other people edit your articles, so you're not a real Wiki."
Part of the reason that Wikipedia has so much conflict is that most people don't totally agree on what exactly a Wiki is. So for some people, unless every huckleberry with an opinion can spray-paint across the front page, it's not really a wiki.
...just like for some people, it's not really getting high unless they can inject the stuff right into their eyeballs. Embrace the amazing difference of opinion in the wonderful rainbow of the world, asshole.
[edit] "A lot of the articles you call censored are back on Wikipedia."
You know, that's very true... just like a book, after all the useful passages have been marked out, sliced, and refashioned as a Care Bears movie, is often returned to the shelves. In the case of the censored articles, we've put up versions that simply don't exist anymore. Their editing histories were wiped from the database, permanently, with no way to view them if you're a lowly editor, and forced to start from scratch. That's what we call Censorship around these parts, even if a cleaned-up version is sitting in its place like nothing happened. We get a lot of mail from people saying "I had no idea of the history behind this entry". A little knowledge is a good thing. A lot of knowledge is even better.
[edit] "Wikipedia has enough criticism and self-checking from within, we don't need you."
Well, better pack the circus tent up here and now! Wikipedia can handle everything, even criticism of Wikipedia! It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!
The inherent sickness we see where we criticize something about Wikipedia's procedures and people consider it not valid because they can't go in immediately and change it is beyond anything we're going to be able to help you with. You're too far gone. Hope you got a nice dinner, because you are fucked.
[edit] "You will be sued or shut down or tracked down and then you will be destroyed."
Well, the fact of life for the three-quarters of the Wikitruthians who are American is that they can be sued for anything at any time. That's what makes this country great, along with Branson, Missouri.
While the admins of Wikitruth think we're totally a-ok with our stuff, we do in fact supply an e-mail address for people to give us a holla-back if there's something amiss. But listening to an endless litany of people saying "blah" for 10 pages with the word "lawsuit" in the middle gets old, even when you're as stoned as we are. And it's hypocritical too.
The fact is, Wikipedians, in the name of Wikipedia, do much worse things than we will ever do every day. They get people fired, they harass school librarians and teachers, they send threatening letters to organizations and individuals they don't agree with... and they do it because they think they're entited to. Again, this is happening every day on Wikipedia. Open your eyes and stop arguing over whether the latest episodes of Family Guy are season "4" or "5". Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Fatty.
