Oh I do wish Douglas Adams was still around. What would he think about the explosive growth of Wikipedia? Would he weigh in on Wikipedia's Two Millionth Article?
I need to clear the air about a couple of the things I said in Why I no Longer Hate Wikipedia, I was blatantly trying to provoke reaction and get people to give me their opinion on Wikirage. I accomplished that, I've been given good feedback, I've interacted with very decent administrators, I've even been given a medal. I haven't changed my mind about the powers that be being over anxious to delete articles. Wikirage is getting prominent position on some search terms where people are desperately trying to find content that administrators have deleted. For example there was an article on the 'List of Webkinz Pets' that was deleted on Sept 8th. There is well thought out reasoning for the deletion. But once gone the public which built and nurtured that page has little to no recourse.
While researching this I found that even the rules are a mutable as the content, it seems the administrators all have a different take on the access to the content. As I am writing this article it appears that the page about wikirage, that someone (not me) wrote last week has just been deleted. For now it is still available in Japanese.
So back to my original statement, The wikipedia is an interesting social experiment -- But I will not be contributing to a media where my contributions can be wiped out without warning or the ability to review.


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