<img alt="" height="1" width="1">Wikipedia Entry for 'Running Gags on Pardon the Interruption ...
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The phrase Wikigroaning is used to demonstrate the way Wikipedia is skewed toward recent, sometimes obscure, pop culture references, and away from the ...


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Yet another observation that Wikipedia is less an encyclopedia and more a compendium of popular culture.

I'm only convinced that is a problem in that it fails to acknowledge this and that it needs different ways to manage the different qualities of articles it has. It's just a database editor after all.

Perhaps we should have a strike of principled Wii players and speak out on their behalf too.

I have no problem with a Wiki site being a compendium of popular culture that anyone can edit. I have a problem labeling that as an encyclopedia that purports to be the sum of all human knowledge.