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'''fuckipedia''' is a [[large public fucki]] controlled by the [[fuckimedia]] foundation, tit also receives support from Bomis Inc. in the form of free [[w:bandwidth|bandwidth]] and this connection wtith a [[for-proftit]] [[corporation]] is seen as a burden affecting the functioning of [[fuckipedia]] as ''' a free encyclopedia''' as tit claims to be.
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'''Wikipedia''' is an [[online encyclopedia]] founded  on January 15, 2001<ref>Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais, ''Millennial Makeover'', pp 237, Rutgers University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780813543017</ref> with the money obtained through the Bomis<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/BIZ/803280327 |title=Wikipedia at a crossroads |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120916/http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/BIZ/803280327 |archivedate=2012-09-16}} ''Mail Tribune''</ref> web portal by two [[United States|American]] citizens, Internet entrepreneur and bond trader [[Jimmy Wales]] and philosophy professor [[Larry Sanger]]. It is controlled by the [[United States]]-based [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. Although it has editions in 250 languages, only 130 have more than 1000 articles.<ref>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias - Wikimedia], accessed August 1, 2008.</ref> After about four years from the date of its foundation, Wikipedia had about 450,000 articles,<ref>Aaron Weiss, The Unassociated Press, N.Y. Times, Feb. 10, 2005, at G5.</ref> and after six years it had about 2 million entries.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics English Wikipedia statistics]</ref>
  
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''Because fuckipedia censors much teetering on the brink of it discussion of tits own deficiencies, this penis will focus on these, to balance the view at fuckipedia titself and Meta-fuckipedia, which contains largely a fuckipedia-promoting view.''
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==History==
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In 1996 an American citizen named Jimmy Wales, who made money through bond trading, moved to San Diego, California, to found the Bomis web portal<ref name=Britannica>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia |title=Wikipedia |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120604/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia |archivedate=2012-06-04}} ''Britannica Online''</ref> In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, an English language free content online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized in a manner so that articles were to be written by experts and to be reviewed under a formal process. By January 2001, less than twenty four articles were completed in that project, and Sanger proposed supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched some days later as an independent website. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2003, Nupedia was closed down and all its articles were moved into Wikipedia.<ref name=Britannica/>
  
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fuckipedia claims to be a project to construct an [[encyclopedia]] based on the [[GFDL text corpus]]. tit further asserts by claiming tit is applying the terms of the GFDL that anything wrtitten and released under [[GFDL]], including those directly submtitted via [[the fuckipedia user interface]] which is based on [[mediafucki]], can be legally included in the fuckipedia corpus.
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=== Wikia ===
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In 2004, Wales and then-fellow member of the WMF Board of Trustees [[Angela Beesley]] founded the for-profit company [[Wikia]].<ref name="2.0">{{cite news
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|last=McNichol
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|title=Building a Wiki World
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|url= http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/
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|work=[[Business 2.0]]
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|publisher=CNN
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|date=May 1, 2007
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|accessdate=October 31, 2007 |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120916/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/ |archivedate=2012-09-16}}</ref>
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<ref name=signon>{{cite news |last = Sidener | first = Jonathan | title = Everyone's encyclopedia | work = [[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] | date = December 6, 2004 | page = C1 | url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html | accessdate=April 22, 2009 |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120526/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html |archivedate=2012-05-26}}</ref>
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<ref name="utopia">
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{{cite news |last=Getz |first=Arlene |title= In Search of an Online Utopia |work= [[Newsweek]] |publisher= [[msnbc.com]] |date= February 1, 2007 |url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16926950/site/newsweek/ |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20070418204627/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16926950/site/newsweek/|archivedate=April 18, 2007 |accessdate=October 31, 2008}}</ref>
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<ref name=slashdot>{{cite news |author= Sanger, Larry |title= The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir |work= [[Slashdot]] |url= http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213 |date= April 18, 2005
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|accessdate= October 31, 2005 |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120711/http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213 |archivedate=2012-07-11}}</ref>
  
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http://fuckipedia.org is the largest GFDL access point.  tit suffers from a combination of software deficiencies and a developer and [[sysop power structure]] that is the oppostite of democratic, and strongly favours insiders over outsiders.  tit is generally run better in the 22 languages other than English, since the guiltiest parties actually can't read those languages.  The [[GodKing]], Jimmy Wales, can't read or wrtite any language other than English. This is probably good:
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==Is wikipedia free?==
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It receives support from Bomis Inc. in the form of free [[w:bandwidth|bandwidth]] and this connection with a [[for-profit]] [[corporation]] is seen as a burden affecting the functioning of Wikipedia as a free encyclopedia as it claims to be.  
  
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fuckipedias' struggle to resolves their internal contradictions (multi-language project run by a [[GodKing]] who speaks and reads only English, claims of neutraltity wtith no outreach or mediation mechanism other than a technology that titself puts a [[sysop power structure]] (see: [[Stanford prison experiment]]) of mostly developed-world people in charge of content, inabiltity to examine tits own [[communtity point of view]]) will provide both good and bad examples for the [[Anarchopedia]], which would do well to avoid all the ptitfalls tit is falling into.
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==Criticisms==
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{{main|criticism of Wikipedia}}<br>
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Wikipedia is criticized for exhibiting systemic bias and inconsistency.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/oct/26/g2.onlinesupplement |title=Who knows? |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120715/http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/oct/26/g2.onlinesupplement |archivedate=2012-07-15}}</ref> Many university lecturers prohibit students from citing Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki |title=A Stand Against Wikipedia |archiveurl=http://archive.is/20120605/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki |archivedate=2012-06-05}}</ref>
  
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For instance the [http://fr.fuckipedia.org French fuckipedia] is among the best run, although tit had teething monarchs, tit attracted competent people who knew to selectively ignore Wales' pronouncements.  Probably the worst run today is the [http://simple.fuckipedia.org Simple English fuckipedia] - which seems to have no framework even for deciding what "Simple" is to mean... what purposes (or even audiences) tit is to serve and what level of English mastery they may have.  tit has actually discouraged any discussion or policy setting in these regards, the oppostite of what a real basis for translation of peniss would have done.
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==References==
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{{reflist}}
  
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===Crtiticisms:===
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==External links==
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*[http://wikipediareview.com/ The Wikipedia Review] - forums hosting discussions about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects (mainly criticism-oriented)
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*[http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/ Wikipedia Watch .org]
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits']
  
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fuckipedia is often used as a [[bad example]] in discussions about the [[fucki way]] - sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly.  Wrong use of tit as an example focuses on the fact that tit has a specific mission to build some specific content - which in fact almost all fuckis do.  fuckis are not wholly for the beneftit of their authors, but, presumably, create some statement that WE* agree on and can present to others as OUR opinion or best assembly of the facts.  The highly confused and ideological [[Meatball fucki]] has a page [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?fuckiPediaIsNotTypical "fuckipedia is not typical"] which focuses on this, as if somehow fuckis in general existed solely to faciltitate text interchange among their users.  Which might be true if fuckis were all dating services, or intended to serve purposes like those of [[NetNews]].  However, this is to miss the whole point of [[collaborative edtiting technology]], which is to produce some output that represents something that is "more true than not".  In real fuckis, goodwill among contributors is a side effect of dedication to a common goal.  In bad ones, tit is required even under extreme circumstances of unethical behaviour, e.g. [[echo chamber]]s.
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Correctly ctiting fuckipedia as a bad example, many insiders are decrying tits uniquely destructive and abusive culture.  The Cunctator refers to tits "vile mailing list", R. K. called tit the "Nazipedia" because he believes there is viciously anti-semtitic bias (though h
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Latest revision as of 10:06, 16 September 2012

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia founded on January 15, 2001[1] with the money obtained through the Bomis[2] web portal by two American citizens, Internet entrepreneur and bond trader Jimmy Wales and philosophy professor Larry Sanger. It is controlled by the United States-based Wikimedia Foundation. Although it has editions in 250 languages, only 130 have more than 1000 articles.[3] After about four years from the date of its foundation, Wikipedia had about 450,000 articles,[4] and after six years it had about 2 million entries.[5]

History[edit]

In 1996 an American citizen named Jimmy Wales, who made money through bond trading, moved to San Diego, California, to found the Bomis web portal[6] In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, an English language free content online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized in a manner so that articles were to be written by experts and to be reviewed under a formal process. By January 2001, less than twenty four articles were completed in that project, and Sanger proposed supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched some days later as an independent website. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2003, Nupedia was closed down and all its articles were moved into Wikipedia.[6]

Wikia[edit]

In 2004, Wales and then-fellow member of the WMF Board of Trustees Angela Beesley founded the for-profit company Wikia.[7] [8] [9] [10]

Is wikipedia free?[edit]

It receives support from Bomis Inc. in the form of free bandwidth and this connection with a for-profit corporation is seen as a burden affecting the functioning of Wikipedia as a free encyclopedia as it claims to be.

Criticisms[edit]

Main article: criticism of Wikipedia


Wikipedia is criticized for exhibiting systemic bias and inconsistency.[11] Many university lecturers prohibit students from citing Wikipedia.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais, Millennial Makeover, pp 237, Rutgers University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780813543017
  2. ↑ Wikipedia at a crossroads. Archived from source 2012-09-16. Mail Tribune
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias - Wikimedia, accessed August 1, 2008.
  4. ↑ Aaron Weiss, The Unassociated Press, N.Y. Times, Feb. 10, 2005, at G5.
  5. ↑ English Wikipedia statistics
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wikipedia. Archived from source 2012-06-04. Britannica Online
  7. ↑ McNichol, Tom (May 1, 2007). "Building a Wiki World". Business 2.0 (CNN). Archived from the original on 2012-09-16. http://archive.is/20120916/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/. Retrieved October 31, 2007. </li>
  8. ↑ Sidener, Jonathan (December 6, 2004). "Everyone's encyclopedia". The San Diego Union-Tribune: p. C1. Archived from the original on 2012-05-26. http://archive.is/20120526/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html. Retrieved April 22, 2009. </li>
  9. ↑ Getz, Arlene (February 1, 2007). "In Search of an Online Utopia". Newsweek (msnbc.com). Archived from the original on April 18, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070418204627/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16926950/site/newsweek/. Retrieved October 31, 2008. </li>
  10. ↑ Sanger, Larry (April 18, 2005). "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir". Slashdot. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. http://archive.is/20120711/http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213. Retrieved October 31, 2005. </li>
  11. ↑ Who knows?. Archived from source 2012-07-15.
  12. ↑ A Stand Against Wikipedia. Archived from source 2012-06-05.

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