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[venta]

Panic!
Wikipedia's servers appear to be down. Accordingly, I don't know anything at all. This is scary.

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[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I saw an excellent example of Wiki brilliance yesterday.

An article had been deleted some time ago on account of it being unreliable tosh of the very first order. It was unreferenced etc and obviously something to be wary of. However, during the life of the article it was sucked into another online repository of all human knowledge and remained there.

The Wikipedia article was subsequently rewritten by someone else and this time it was full of references and other stuff to make you feel good about it. Only problem was, the references were to the duplicate of the previously deleted article...

[venta.livejournal.com]

That is special. I'm not sure whether to file it under someone taking the piss, or someone completely missing the point of references.

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Amusingly I saw this too yesterday (although unless you have an interest in Motorola processors, this is probably a coincidence).

It's funny when people do this. One good thing about the GFDL is that (AIUI) anyone copying material from Wikipedia must legally say that it came from Wikipedia, so at least these things are usually easy to spot.