Re: languages used on the internet


"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Xah Lee" <xah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> as far as language on the internet issue is concerneed, wikipedia:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_on_the_Internet
>> is more trustworthy.
>
> Wikipedia data can by definition be changed by anyone at any moment of
> time, so "trustworthy" isn't really the word. Funnily, the page itself
> says
> (right now) that it needs to be "cleaned up". The fun part is that not all
> wikipedia pages carry that statement.

I've been an "editor" on Wikipedia (En), and created lots of pages. At first
it was something fun to do, but when people who don't share your point of
view on a subject suddenly barges in and puts in loads of extremist pov, it
was time to stop. I look every now and again, but I don't contribute a
fraction as much as I used to.

As for trustworthiness, some of it is. "Needs to be cleaned up" means to
reorganise the whole article to make it read better, and correct mistakes,
take out broken links.

Dyl.


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