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Climbing On The Banwagon

4 December 2007 - 8:13am — Christopher Wright
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Help Desk, by Christopher B. Wright
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JIM WASHINGTON: Wikipedia surprised the world today when it was announced that a core group of site administrators was using a secret mailing list to discuss banning suspected agent provacateurs without going through the standard community process. Wikipedia, which claims to be a democratic, open, and community-driven encyclopedia, has long been accused by its critics of engaging in censorship to block any contributors who criticize its policies and activities.

JIM WASHINGTON: This just in: apparently no-one is really surprised that Wikipedia is engaging in this behaviour.

JIM WASHINGTON: This just in: I have been banned from Wikipedia.

NEWS TICKERTAPE: Wikipedia classifies Tomato as Vegetable -- "Scientific Classification Not Notable" is official explanation :: Stephen Hawking declared "Sock Puppet"

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Comments

Yeah, Wikipedia

4 December 2007 - 5:57pm — GDwarf (not verified)

Yeah, Wikipedia has...problems.

Mostly with the whole "separation of powers", they don't seem to realize that giving a large group of people unlimited power with, essentially, no checks or balances is normally a bad idea.

If they could only allow votes (say) to remove admins who abuse their power, it might end up working out.

So true

8 December 2007 - 4:49pm — Selina (not verified)

Someone linked to you on our forum, I thought I'd say it's scarily accurate...

Anyone who wants to discuss these issues is very welcome over at http://wikipediareview.com/ :)

Hawkings isn't *really* a sock puppet ...

9 December 2007 - 2:02pm — JohnThomas (not verified)

Steven Hawkings isn't *really* a sock puppet ... but, I grant you, he *does* look like one. I thank you, Mr. Wright, for bringing this to our attention. Have you also noticed he's been a guest on the Simpsons *twice* (at least), and Star Trek only once? (Again, AFAIK)

Banned from Ubersoft too?

11 December 2007 - 9:57am — GreenEgg (not verified)

So, you've been banned from Wikipedia, have you been banned from Ubersoft as well? :D