On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:34:09AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Wikipedia is not free. Wikipedia is operated by people, with hierarchic
> ranks, who control it. Anything in the articles which doesn't fit their
> agenda will be removed or modified, and any person whom they don't like
> (for any reason) will be banned from Wikipedia. Believe me, I know.
> Wikipedia is not objective, and not free. It reminds me the book
> "Animal Farm". Remember the sentence "All people are equal, but some
> people are more equal than others"? That's Wikipedia.
>
> You can't correct falsehoods in Wikipedia. Believe me, I tried. If the
> editors ("system operators") don't like what you wrote, it will be
> changed back and you will be banned. Wikipedia is a dictatorship.
> There is no way to appeal on a system operator's decision to ban you or
> change what you wrote.
Actually one thing that is rarely edited away in wikipedia is the
discussion pages. Thus we generally know what those faceless system
operators did. We can also tell when they did it and in many cases why.
Could you point out one such biased article? Because I've heard this
criticism before and every time I checked the editors' judgement seemed
very reasonable.
>
> There are excellent articles in Wikipedia, in areas such as mathematics,
> science etc. But when it gets to politics or to anything else where
> there are different opinions - Wikipedia is not neutral.
>
> >>By the way, www.google-watch.org has a Google PageRank of 6, and appears
> >>#17 when searching "google" on Google. The first 14 websites are
> >>operated by Google, so it's #3 site which is not operated by Google.
> >
> >
> >Ok, and that says what?
>
> www.google-watch.org is the third most popular site about Google, which
> is not operated by Google. And that says something.
That there are enough fools? Heck, that site criticises google's
pagerank method. So its pagerank should be irrelevant, if you buy its
arguments, right?
Another reminder: http://mozillaquest.com/ . Try looking at its
archives. As a reminder for why it's called that way, look at
http://mozillaquestquest.com/
BTW: there is a simpler explenation: no one with a sane mind wants to
starts fighting with google over the name. Because then you know you'll
automatically loose the first page (first 10 places).
Unless you spell google backwards, or something (see the search results) ;-)
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