Wikipedia also led the #1 digital encyclopedia (MS Encarta) to fold. There are some strange people (like a guy at my workplace) who type complete bulls**t into Wikipedia just to see how long it will be online before someone discovers the errors.
And unlike the gold standard, Wikipedia has far more articles on things you would not expect to find in the Encyclopedia Britannica, particularly biographies. Jeffery On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:36 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Wikipedia has been compared to the Gold Standard, (Britannica), and been > found to be in most cases just as accurate. Both encyclopedias contain > errors, sometimes huge errors. Bottom line you need multiple sources, and > don't trust any of them unduly. > > On 11/5/2010 7:06 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> wikipedia is wholely made up by public hearsay. >> >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Bob W<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I was checking definitions of "chimping" and Wikipedia claims it is and >>>> acronym: "Chimp is an acronym for CHeck IMage Preview." >>> sounds like horseshit to me. (Does horseshit make a noise? whatever). I >>> reckon that's a back-formation that someone's come up with. Does wikipedia >>> provide any kind of evidence? >>> >>>> It also mentions >>>> the "ooh, ooh, ahh, ahhh" connection. I will continue to cite the latter. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Steven Desjardins<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> New terminology might be a more appropriate phrase. This typically >>>>> includes current words given new meanings. There are very few totally >>>>> new words with a truly "short term" etymology. Even completely new >>>>> physical properties like those that arise in fundamental physics are >>>>> usually named with current words given new meanings, e.g., >>>>> strangeness. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:21 PM, paul stenquist >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> paul stenquist wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But it's not a new word, just a new usage. >>>>>>> I believe the original question was a little poorly worded and what >>>>>>> was really intended was more like "What words have been added to >>>>>>> your vocabulary because of digital photography?" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In other words, the words need not be new, but rather new to you, >>>>>>> and they need not be exclusive to digital photography as long as >>>>>>> digital photography was how you were introduced to them. >>>>>> Perhaps. But my answer would still be none, and the premise would be >>>> less interesting. >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Steve Desjardins >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Steve Desjardins >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> > > > -- > "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed > moral bankruptcy." > -Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
