WIKIPEDIA for World Heritage? Options

[mbz1]

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en

Help us to get WIKIPEDIA recognized as first digital World Heritage Site by UNESCO
This year WIKIPEDIA celebrated its 10th anniversary – a great occasion to honor what a lot of people achieved together and to ensure the continued existence of WIKIPEDIA as a platform of free knowledge.
It all began with a simple idea:
“What if everyone was given free access to the sum of all human knowledge?” Within the last 10 years, this seemingly utopian idea has resulted in nothing less than the largest collection of human knowledge ever created. Independent, unrestrictedly accessible, and non-commercial.
This achievement made WIKIPEDIA a pioneer of cultural change because WIKIPEDIA transferred the tradition of knowledge exchange into the new, digital age. Thus creating a unique place of knowledge exchange in the history of civilization.
This is why as a cross-border cultural achievement, WIKIPEDIA deserves recognition and protection as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural Heritage Site. If you share this opinion, we appeal for you to sign the petition.

This post has been edited by mbz1: Mon 6th February 2012, 1:46am

[Zoloft]

I feel there is only one website that deserves that honor: Zombo.com

You can do anything at Zombo.com...
Anything at all...
The only limit is yourself.

[Selina]

I feel there is only one website that deserves that honor: Zombo.com
You can do anything at Zombo.com...
Anything at all...
The only limit is yourself.

• boohbah.tv/zone.html lol
• Reminds me of this: youtu.be/GarB-QP0F4U#t=7m35s (I found out they made a cd version after haha)
• goaste.cx/goaste/nemi001.html (wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_%28comic_strip%29)
— I love surrealism.

Anyway... I think the idea of Wikipedia is good, but it seems like either they need to make drastic changes to stop deleting such massive amounts of otherwise reliable stuff — or a new website needs to be made that is more inclusive really, they can't go around claiming to be "the sum of all human knowledge" when it's not so much about notability but what the people around at the time think is notable, e.g. stuff that doesn't interest geeks gets wiped while there's hundreds of crap about simpsons/pokemon/transformers etc as people mentioned before, but it's just a question of how it would actually become successful in the face of Wikipedia's competition now, it's sad...
this whole idea of "scope" is very POV and seems to be to encourage content flow to Wikia so they can get money running ads on it (none of which goes back to Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation...:
• wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets - actively feeding off the culture of deletionism on Wikipedia, eating itself from the inside
• wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia#Wikia_and_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
•• Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis, TechCrunch
•• wikia.com/wiki/Help:Wikimedia

(first up on January 2010)
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia, and former chair, now member of Wikimedia's Board of Trustees), and Angela Beesley Starling (member of Wikimedia's Advisory Board

•• wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikia,_Inc._is_not_the_commercial_counterpart_to_Wikipedia_or_the_Wikimedia_Foundation

(first up on April 2007)
no managerial links. The only relationship between the two is that Jimmy Wales, is the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is also one of the founders of Wikia, Inc.

Seems like WMF is lying, unless Angela Beesley joined WMF *after* founding Wikia?

Wikipedia should purge itself of all associations with Wikia and rewrite the book on whats acceptible, face up to the fact that it can be comprehensive when it can be downloaded onto a damn Ipad, as long as stuff is notable, sure, why not? Why dump it all to Wikia and plaster it with horrible ads and videos instead and far less standards, it's such a waste..

[thekohser]

Seems like WMF is lying...

This is neither a novel nor a surprising discovery you've made, but I'm happy to see you're on the right track now. Don't forget Michael E. Davis, either!

[Michaeldsuarez]

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en

Help us to get WIKIPEDIA recognized as first digital World Heritage Site by UNESCO
This year WIKIPEDIA celebrated its 10th anniversary – a great occasion to honor what a lot of people achieved together and to ensure the continued existence of WIKIPEDIA as a platform of free knowledge.
It all began with a simple idea:
“What if everyone was given free access to the sum of all human knowledge?” Within the last 10 years, this seemingly utopian idea has resulted in nothing less than the largest collection of human knowledge ever created. Independent, unrestrictedly accessible, and non-commercial.
This achievement made WIKIPEDIA a pioneer of cultural change because WIKIPEDIA transferred the tradition of knowledge exchange into the new, digital age. Thus creating a unique place of knowledge exchange in the history of civilization.
This is why as a cross-border cultural achievement, WIKIPEDIA deserves recognition and protection as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural Heritage Site. If you share this opinion, we appeal for you to sign the petition.

Adequacy.org is the only website worthy of being the "first digital World Heritage Site by UNESCO."

Also, why does Wikipedia need "protection"? Is it endangered? Does it seek special privileges? Do they want to pay fewer taxes yet again?

[lilburne]

Adequacy.org is the only website worthy of being the "first digital World Heritage Site by UNESCO."

Seconded!

No doubt it traumatized most of the WP that are older than 25.

This post has been edited by lilburne: Mon 6th February 2012, 2:05pm

[melloden]

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=en

Help us to get WIKIPEDIA recognized as first digital World Heritage Site by UNESCO
This year WIKIPEDIA celebrated its 10th anniversary – a great occasion to honor what a lot of people achieved together and to ensure the continued existence of WIKIPEDIA as a platform of free knowledge.
It all began with a simple idea:
“What if everyone was given free access to the sum of all human knowledge?” Within the last 10 years, this seemingly utopian idea has resulted in nothing less than the largest collection of human knowledge ever created. Independent, unrestrictedly accessible, and non-commercial.
This achievement made WIKIPEDIA a pioneer of cultural change because WIKIPEDIA transferred the tradition of knowledge exchange into the new, digital age. Thus creating a unique place of knowledge exchange in the history of civilization.
This is why as a cross-border cultural achievement, WIKIPEDIA deserves recognition and protection as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural Heritage Site. If you share this opinion, we appeal for you to sign the petition.

That's been around for at least six months, you know.

[radek]

It's annoying that I can't sign an anti-petition. Someone *should* start a "It's not a heritage site, it's just a freakin' website" petition.

[EricBarbour]

It's annoying that I can't sign an anti-petition. Someone *should* start a "It's not a heritage site, it's just a freakin' website" petition.

Well.....you have this site, and this site, and this site, and this site (probably the best).

So make your own petitions. Now....good luck getting people to notice them.