I love Wikipedia, & I use it probably several times every day. Lately quite a brouhaha has erupted over the veracity
of Wikipedia's articles. Me, I use my common sense when I read articles in Wikipedia, & I use Wikipedia as a start,
not as my only resource on a subject. As I said, common sense. Unfortunately, some nimrods want to fix Wikipedia by
doing what Americans do best: sue the crap out of someone that upsets them. Want to learn more about their suit? Then
check out http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org, which is the home page
for the effort to sue Wikipedia. If you want to join the law suit, well, that's your business, but I think that it's
foolish & misguided; instead, I want you to see this page to have an idea about the craziness swirling around out
there on the subject of Wikipedia.
(Check out all of our posts on Wikipedia.)
Class action suit against Wikipedia
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. These antiwikis seem to be full of it. One of their complaints is that the child molestors they allege edit some of the pages could locate kids by their ip addresses - then they're complaining that editors are anonymous, identified only by an ip address! If the ip address is all the paedophiles need to locate children, surely the editors are also easy to find?
Posted at 6:58PM on Mar 4th 2006 by Will Wallace
3. I love their links to articles 'about' Wikipeda. They are some of the worst-written self-opioninated tripe I've read in a long while.
Luckily, I'm not the only one to think that. All the articles in question are lucky to get more than 1.5 out of 5 in the ratings! :)
I can see where this is going, and it's not that far!
Posted at 7:13PM on Feb 3rd 2006 by Jonathan Wright
4. Perhaps if the organisers of wikipediaclassaction.org took the time to competently check the grammar of their front-page statement, and didn't take the blatantly hypocritical path of libelling the individual who represents wikipedia while stating libel as one of their primary motivators in organising the class action, I would read beyond the first paragraphs of their site - and maybe even follow a link or two.
Posted at 11:13PM on Feb 5th 2006 by Shaun
1. Pathetic!!! Frigging pathetic. I mean, if you hate it, dont use it.....dont go freaking around suing its pants off.....
Posted at 11:00AM on Feb 7th 2006 by Naveen Roy