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5 Terrifying B*********tions of the Wikipedia Model
 
ZeldaQueen
Posted: 08 August 2009 10:15 PM   [ Ignore ]
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http://www.cracked.com/article_17341_5-terrifying-bastardizations-wikipedia-model.html

For those of us (not us here specifically) who have been long oppressed by the obvious Pagan/Christian/Pro-Holocause/Liberal/[insert offending name of group here] slant the regular Wikipedia’s got.

Makes me wonder how easy it is to set up these things.

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LaMa
Posted: 09 August 2009 01:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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In principle, quite easy. The necessary Wiki server software is open source. You just need to fill it up with text.

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ZeldaQueen
Posted: 09 August 2009 10:40 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Really? Interesting…

*Begins to plot*

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Posted: 09 August 2009 10:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I think that Alex has or had a similar thing here about hoaxes, didn’t he?  Or did that get left behind on the wayside?

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Posted: 09 August 2009 06:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Accipiter - 09 August 2009 10:42 AM

I think that Alex has or had a similar thing here about hoaxes, didn’t he?  Or did that get left behind on the wayside?

Alex had a bastardization of a Wiki?

I don’t know.  I thought it was a pretty good Wiki.

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ZeldaQueen
Posted: 09 August 2009 09:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Yeah, I navigated that the best I could when I first came here. It was actually pretty cool. smile

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“It’s not that I don’t think that the government would try to hide dead aliens; it’s that I don’t think the government would succeed, since every time the government tries to do something secretly, as in the Iran-contra arms deal, it winds up displaying all the finesse and stealth of an exploding cigar at a state funeral.”

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Posted: 10 August 2009 04:03 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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I have a feeling Alex put it on hold because it was a bigger task than he realised.  I just can’t recall where I saw that.

Aaah….Found it.  He’s merging it into a Hoax Archive.

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Posted: 10 August 2009 04:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Frankly, I was kind of offended they put WikiFur in the same catagory as white supremacists and other such wierdness.  Meh.

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Posted: 10 August 2009 07:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Robin Bobcat - 10 August 2009 04:26 AM

Frankly, I was kind of offended they put WikiFur in the same catagory as white supremacists and other such wierdness.  Meh.

Yeah, neither that one nor the pagan one are really what I’d consider to be “Terrifying Bastardizations of the Wikipedia Model”.  As far as I can see, those two mainly just document all the whatnot from their two respective subcultures.  Which is basically just a more focused version of what Wikipedia does.  They’re not like the others on that list, which do things such as intentionally misinform or manipulate.

But then, the whole article seems to be more for entertainment than informative purposes itself.  Which is, I suppose, why the author concentrated on the sex-related aspect of WikiFur and ignored most of the rest.

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Posted: 10 August 2009 08:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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Well, it is an article from cracked.com, after all.
I love the site because I find it funny, not because it has much informative value.
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ZeldaQueen
Posted: 10 August 2009 08:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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Boo - 10 August 2009 08:02 AM

Well, it is an article from cracked.com, after all.
I love the site because I find it funny, not because it has much informative value.
wink

I know. Especially since they put Sweeney Todd as a bad movie with a misleading trailer.

I guess they felt they ought to have brought up the pagan wiki though to keep things fair (or at least as fair as an article like that could get). No idea why the furry one was brought in…

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