Jimbo Wales vs. Oliver Kamm, ...get your popcorn Options Rating

[thekohser]

Step 1:
Read this guest column in the Times of London:

Step 2:
Read Jimbo's response on the WikiEN mailing list:
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:23:55 -0400
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Times article (London)
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

> "The notion that a false claim to knowledge is wrong is not part of
> Wikipedia's culture."

This is preposterous.

> "It combines the free-market dogmatism of the libertarian Right with
> the anti-intellectualism of the populist Left. "

Nonsense.

It is hard to know how to coherently respond to ignorant ranting which
appears to make no attempt to even connect at any point with the facts
of reality.

--Jimbo

Step 3:
Sit back and watch how Oliver Kamm (a noted radical intellectual and financial expert who has sparred with Noam Chomsky) tears open Jimmy Wales in the next few weeks. Pop some popcorn!

[Somey]

Everybody keeps making more work for me! AAAAAAAAAA!

"Critics of the web decry the medium as the cult of the amateur. Wikipedia is worse than that; it is the province of the covert lobby."

Maybe the blurb could say "Welcome to the province of the covert lobby's luxury press box"?

[Jonny Cache]

Everybody keeps making more work for me! AAAAAAAAAA!

"Critics of the web decry the medium as the cult of the amateur. Wikipedia is worse than that; it is the province of the covert lobby."

Maybe the blurb could say "Welcome to the province of the covert lobby's luxury press box"?

I recall the culvert lobbies we had as young wippersnappers growin' up in Texas — there wouldn't be no wikisnappers for years to come — but mostly we jes hid out from our folks, chuggin' LoneStars, gallon jugs o' SaltyDogs, or sippin' Sloe Gin, for them what could stomach it. Then we'd upchuck and head on home.

I guess some things just never change …

Jonny (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/cool.gif)

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