"I think it's pretty well established now that Jimbo is an evil person. I'm starting to wonder the benefit to continuing to find evidence of this view." That was what I wrote to Gregory Kohs in an email about a month ago. Lately I've been thinking the same might be true of the WMF itself.
I recently went on vacation and didn't follow many things Wikipedia while I was away. Now I'm back and find myself bored by these things.
I've also discovered that blogging is a lot harder than ranting on a mailing list. But I'm going to keep trying.
In the mean time, if anyone has a plan to rescue Wikipedia from the evil clutches of the Wikimedia Foundation, please let me know, publicly or privately.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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I've determined that the only way to rescue Wikipedia (the content) is not to try changing it from within (the WMF and the "community"); but rather, to organize an intelligent, well-funded, credentialed team of publishing professionals, add a good mix of wiki coders, then scrape Wikipedia to a new site. The new team would do everything "right" that was done "wrong" with Wikipedia.
Namely, protected versions of defamation-free articles, real-name-confirmed users only, paid content-administrators (what are called "editors" in the publishing world), and waiver of the Section 230 protections within a three-year window. Only an organization willing to take legal responsibility for the content will give the planet what it deserves -- an ethical, trustworthy, encyclopedic record of human knowledge.
Did you play any poker, Anthony?
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