My suggestion, which I found on a colleague's userpage, would be:
Written by the unwell, read by the unwise.
Any other suggestions?
Full Version: A New Motto For Wikiland
Since the old motto has become a tired and embarrassing joke, there was a recent discussion the teh Jimmy's talkpage about adopting a new one that better reflects the true nature of WP. The discussion was closed before it even really got off the ground. Which is a pity because Wikiland really does need a new motto.
My suggestion, which I found on a colleague's userpage, would be:
Written by the unwell, read by the unwise.
Any other suggestions?
My suggestion, which I found on a colleague's userpage, would be:
Written by the unwell, read by the unwise.
Any other suggestions?
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Jon
Jon
Wikipedia: almost but not entirely unlike an encyclopedia
Wikipedia: all the same letters and numbers, but without the cumbersome scholarship
Wikipedia: Jimbo's big bag o' slander, typos, lies, and trivia!
Wikipedia: all the same letters and numbers, but without the cumbersome scholarship
Wikipedia: Jimbo's big bag o' slander, typos, lies, and trivia!
Wikipedia: It's like Alice in Wonderland, but not as entertaining. 
Where is Victim of Censorship when you need him? How about
WIKEPEIDA: shit pile of filth
WIKEPEIDA: evil, despicable Shitfarm, an offense to Human dignity, respect and knowledge
WIKEPEIDA: shit pile of filth
WIKEPEIDA: evil, despicable Shitfarm, an offense to Human dignity, respect and knowledge
"Wikipedia. The Choice of a Used Generation."
I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!
QUOTE(Rhindle @ Mon 25th January 2010, 10:20pm) 
I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!
** WINNER **
You have just won.....A KICK IN THE FACE FROM A BLONDE MIDGET!
CONGRATULATIONS!
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Mon 25th January 2010, 10:18pm)
QUOTE(Rhindle @ Mon 25th January 2010, 10:20pm)
I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!
** WINNER **
You have just won.....A KICK IN THE FACE FROM A BLONDE MIDGET!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Thanks! That would have to be one agile midget though.
QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 25th January 2010, 8:46pm)
Where is Victim of Censorship when you need him? How about
WIKEPEIDA: shit pile of filth
WIKEPEIDA: evil, despicable Shitfarm, an offense to Human dignity, respect and knowledge
WIKEPEIDA: Cesspool of Lies and Jimbo's house of hate.
To paraphrase an old bumper sticker from the Southern U.S.:
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Mon 25th January 2010, 10:48am)
Since the old motto has become a tired and embarrassing joke, there was a recent discussion the teh Jimmy's talkpage about adopting a new one that better reflects the true nature of WP. The discussion was closed before it even really got off the ground. Which is a pity because Wikiland really does need a new motto.
My suggestion, which I found on a colleague's userpage, would be:
Written by the unwell, read by the unwise.
Any other suggestions?
Wikipedia: Where else can you find encyclopia articles on quantum mechanics and relativity that anyone can edit?
Exxxcelent!
Keep the ideas a coming crew, then we can have a poll to pick our new official, unofficial Wikimotto!
Keep the ideas a coming crew, then we can have a poll to pick our new official, unofficial Wikimotto!
QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 25th January 2010, 8:46pm)
Where is Victim of Censorship when you need him? How about
WIKEPEIDA: shit pile of filth
WIKEPEIDA: evil, despicable Shitfarm, an offense to Human dignity, respect and knowledge
Rhindle did a mighty good Joe-job in this thread.
QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Tue 26th January 2010, 9:47pm)
QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 25th January 2010, 8:46pm)
Where is Victim of Censorship when you need him? How about
WIKEPEIDA: shit pile of filth
WIKEPEIDA: evil, despicable Shitfarm, an offense to Human dignity, respect and knowledge
Rhindle did a mighty good Joe-job in this thread.
WIKIPEDIA MUST DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH AND ANYONE WHO EDITS THERE IS A COMPLETE JACKASS AND SHOULD GO TO JAIL
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Would you like to be 1/3 or the troika along with either Milton or Jonny (depending on who responds first) and myself that will choose the nominees for the poll?
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Tue 26th January 2010, 4:04pm)
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Personally, I thought "the discussion was closed before it even really got off the ground" would make a good motto, given the current state of things over there.
Wikipedia:Where Some Truths Are More Equal Than Others ?
How about This must be where knowledge goes when it dies...?
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Tue 26th January 2010, 5:04pm)
WIKIPEDIA MUST DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH AND ANYONE WHO EDITS THERE IS A COMPLETE JACKASS AND SHOULD GO TO JAIL
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Would you like to be 1/3 or the troika along with either Milton or Jonny (depending on who responds first) and myself that will choose the nominees for the poll?
Well, that's a bit derivative of the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® line, and even muffs the punch a bit — and I'm really still hoping the classic Lake of Shit shtick will eventually work up some Google cachet.
Jon
QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 26th January 2010, 10:25pm)
How about This must be where knowledge goes when it dies...?
"So this is how knowledge dies...with thunderous applause.â€
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 26th January 2010, 10:30pm)
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Tue 26th January 2010, 5:04pm)
WIKIPEDIA MUST DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH AND ANYONE WHO EDITS THERE IS A COMPLETE JACKASS AND SHOULD GO TO JAIL
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Would you like to be 1/3 or the troika along with either Milton or Jonny (depending on who responds first) and myself that will choose the nominees for the poll?
Well, that's a bit derivative of the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® line, and even muffs the punch a bit, and I was really hoping the classic Lake of Shit shtick would eventually work up some Google cachet.
Jon
Burning lake of shit...must be burning...makes for a nice hellish/toxic waste dump ambiance.
BTW, I'd be honored if you'd join lil ol moi as 2/3 of the judging troika.
QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 26th January 2010, 5:15pm)
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Tue 26th January 2010, 4:04pm)
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Personally, I thought "the discussion was closed before it even really got off the ground" would make a good motto, given the current state of things over there.
It was necessary to destroy the knowledge in order to save it.
Jon
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 26th January 2010, 10:42pm)
QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 26th January 2010, 5:15pm)
QUOTE(RDH(Ghost In The Machine) @ Tue 26th January 2010, 4:04pm)
Is good, but I like his "I can't believe it's an encyclopedia!" better.
Personally, I thought "the discussion was closed before it even really got off the ground" would make a good motto, given the current state of things over there.
It was necessary to destroy the knowledge in order to save it.
Jon
Our Man in Rotterdam put it quite well:
Yes, but that won't help Wikipedia, which features the difference of all human knowledge rather than the sum.
I figure this means on its best days a WP article will only reflect the portion [of human knowledge] which nobody powerful enough has an interest in vetoing.
I figure by the end of the song, Leeroy "Free Encyclopedia" Brown will look like a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces defaced, inverted, redacted, cut in half, or painted out by request of EMI.
That's what the broken globe logo is all about, right?
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Thu 6th August 2009, 12:37pm)
Yes, but that won't help Wikipedia, which features the difference of all human knowledge rather than the sum.
I figure this means on its best days a WP article will only reflect the portion [of human knowledge] which nobody powerful enough has an interest in vetoing.
I figure by the end of the song, Leeroy "Free Encyclopedia" Brown will look like a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces defaced, inverted, redacted, cut in half, or painted out by request of EMI.
That's what the broken globe logo is all about, right?
QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Tue 26th January 2010, 11:06pm)
Our Man in Rotterdam put it quite well:
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Thu 6th August 2009, 12:37pm)
Yes, but that won't help Wikipedia, which features the difference of all human knowledge rather than the sum.
I figure this means on its best days a WP article will only reflect the portion [of human knowledge] which nobody powerful enough has an interest in vetoing.
I figure by the end of the song, Leeroy "Free Encyclopedia" Brown will look like a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces defaced, inverted, redacted, cut in half, or painted out by request of EMI.
That's what the broken globe logo is all about, right?
"The difference of all human knowledge rather than the sum."
Is hereby duly nominated.
And I concur...before the end finally comes, many will just say FORK it...
A compendium of knowledge, or at least something that looks like a compendium of knowledge.
Or maybe better: "An encyclopedia, or whatever."
Or maybe better: "An encyclopedia, or whatever."
Wikipedia: Where something a big newspaper prints about your life is considered more reliable than what you yourself remember. Even if the newspaper got the "fact" from you in the first place, and fucked goofed it up. 
Wikipedia: Where scurrilously and anonymously attacking the academic credentials of an opponent's source is considered fair, but pointing out that your adolescent opponent himself has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, is considered bad faith.
Wikipedia: Where scurrilously and anonymously attacking the academic credentials of an opponent's source is considered fair, but pointing out that your adolescent opponent himself has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, is considered bad faith.
Wikipedia: Where the teenagers are hyperactive, the men are fat and the women are super sexy (except Risker, who looks like a homeless man in a wig).
QUOTE(Kwork @ Tue 26th January 2010, 7:26pm)
To paraphrase an old bumper sticker from the Southern U.S.:
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
IN Chicago, to paraphrase an old saying, if you got a rabid dog threatening the neighborhood, you then shoot it and get rid of it.
Wikipedia is a threat to value of accurate knowledge, to peoples lives and reputations, and steals peoples ideas and distorts and cheapens them for the benefit of a few leet (global trotting techno gladflys -JIMMY-SUZZIE and a cadre of other wikileet on staff.)
QUOTE(Kwork @ Tue 26th January 2010, 11:26am)
To paraphrase an old bumper sticker from the Southern U.S.:
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" - G.K. Chesterton, "A Defence of Patriotism", 1901
QUOTE(gomi @ Wed 27th January 2010, 2:24am)
QUOTE(Kwork @ Tue 26th January 2010, 11:26am)
To paraphrase an old bumper sticker from the Southern U.S.:
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
If Your Heart Ain't In Wiki Get Your Ass Out.
"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" - G.K. Chesterton, "A Defence of Patriotism", 1901
"H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" - Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885
"Wikipedia ... The Unqualified in Pursuit of the Unreferencable" -- with all respects to Oscar Wilde
Or perhaps ...
"Wikipedia ... The Inept in Pursuit of the Unreadable" {{fact}}.
All modifications on the theme welcomed.
Or perhaps ...
"Wikipedia ... The Inept in Pursuit of the Unreadable" {{fact}}.
All modifications on the theme welcomed.
QUOTE(Cock-up-over-conspiracy @ Wed 27th January 2010, 2:01am)
"Wikipedia ... The Unqualified in Pursuit of the Unreferencable" -- with all respects to Oscar Wilde
Or perhaps ...
"Wikipedia ... The Inept in Pursuit of the Unreadable" {{fact}}.
All modifications on the theme welcomed.
"Unept"? That's one of those words you dare not get wrong, like incompetant.
Wikipedia: It looks so plausible.
Wikipedia - Larry Sanger's good idea, Jimmy Wales' meatgrinder!
Wikipedia: [citations needed]
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 27th January 2010, 7:44am)
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee!
Wikipedia: not yet owned by Google.
Wikipedia: You're either with us, or our enemy.
Wikipedia: All the facts that print to fit.
Wikipedia: You always have the right to fork off.
Wikipedia: You're either with us, or our enemy.
Wikipedia: All the facts that print to fit.
Wikipedia: You always have the right to fork off.
Wikipedia: Can You Figure Out Which Admin is Really Greg Kohs?
QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 27th January 2010, 1:03pm)
Wikipedia: Can You Figure Out Which Admin Is Really Greg Kohs?
Wikipedia : Can You Figure Out How Many Admins Are Really Greg Kohs?
WP:CYFOHMAARGK?
QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 27th January 2010, 8:42am)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 27th January 2010, 7:44am)
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee!
Wikipedia is no place for a Roads Scholar.
Wikipedia
Always open ...
Always open ...
I have already billed Jimbo $1,000 for this slogan.I thought you gave Jimbo $1,000.
Well, money changed hands.
Wikipedia: No country for old men!
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 27th January 2010, 9:04am)
QUOTE(Cock-up-over-conspiracy @ Wed 27th January 2010, 2:01am)
"Wikipedia ... The Inept in Pursuit of the Unreadable" {{fact}}.
"Unept"? That's one of those words you dare not get wrong, like incompetant.
Who is that ... Milton "Those-Sneaky-Japs-Started-It-First" Roe? I should have guessed.
It says, "inept" ... you need new glasses. Or could just try your copyediting skills on the Pee-dia. So ...
Wikipedia ... the only encyclopedia which looks better if you don't wear your glasses.
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 27th January 2010, 10:16am)
QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 27th January 2010, 1:03pm)
Wikipedia: Can You Figure Out Which Admin Is Really Greg Kohs?
Wikipedia : Can You Figure Out How Many Admins Are Really Greg Kohs?
WP:CYFOHMAARGK?
Perhaps wikipedia should change its name to Where's Kohs?
Wikipedia: Remember Rome? Well, in our case, Romulus really did kill Remus.
Wikipedia: At least we're not NBC.
Wikipedia: Mzoli's Meat and more!
Wikipedia: Providing Free Drama since 2000!
Wikipedia: You, too, can save an African child. Just right click on the child's picture, choose Save Image As, and then release it into the GFDL/CC-by-SA license via Wikipedia.
That's all I have at the moment.
Wikipedia: At least we're not NBC.
Wikipedia: Mzoli's Meat and more!
Wikipedia: Providing Free Drama since 2000!
Wikipedia: You, too, can save an African child. Just right click on the child's picture, choose Save Image As, and then release it into the GFDL/CC-by-SA license via Wikipedia.
That's all I have at the moment.
Wikipedia: 1984 and a half.
Which is also the original working title of one of my all time fav flicks Brazil!
Which is also the original working title of one of my all time fav flicks Brazil!
WIKIPEIDA: the Rosemary's Baby of the web
WIKIPEIDA: a huge ocean of Shit, stinking up the Internet (thank you Vic)
WIKIPEIDA: a huge ocean of Shit, stinking up the Internet (thank you Vic)
Wikipedia: Brendon iz ghey!
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