[lbo-talk] But Wikipedia sucks, right?

[shag carpet bomb]

i didn't know there were any on the list. chuck0 gets irritated by 
rightwingers' domination of political/cultural/social issues but nearly 
everyone has remarked on how good the technical/computing articles tend to 
be. and i'm guessing chuck0 isn't opposed to the concept in general, simply 
disgusted with  the fact that it's abused in the service of rightwing ideology.

At 07:13 AM 6/11/2011, fernando cassia wrote:
>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/23554914632/national-archives-hires-wikipedian-residence.shtml
>
>National Archives Hires 'Wikipedian In Residence' 
><http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110608/23554914632/national-archives-hires-wikipedian-residence.shtml> 
>(/Surprises/)
>
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>by *Mike Masnick* from the /but-wikipedia-sucks,-right?/ dept on Friday, 
>June 10th, 2011 @ 6:34PM
>
>Didn't see this coming. Via Glyn Moody 
><https://twitter.com/#%21/glynmoody/statuses/78446005942616065>, we learn 
>that the National Archives has hired its first "Wikipedian in Residence" 
><http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/19467868/> -- though it appears to only 
>be a summer internship position.
>
>    /The Archives says [Dominic] McDevitt-Parks has more than seven
>    years of Wikipedia editing experience. His job will be to foster
>    collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National
>    Archives. That could include using some of Wikipedia's tools for
>    ongoing digitization projects at the archives. /
>
>It would be interesting to hear the Wikipedia-haters' take on this. It 
>seems to me that this is yet another sign of Wikipedia's place in our 
>current culture.
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