Three cheers for Wikileaks, without whom most of this story would have no sources

(oh...oh shit... I best not say that out loud, for fear of appearing a wikicultist. Sorry, Cade)

And let's mention that Hari Seldon's Foundation, ostensibly set up to write the Encyclopaedia Galactica, turned out to be a hoax.

...but I think I got away with it!

When I win the open WMF Board seat, I promise that things will change in San Francisco. Yes, I'm actually running.

Wikitards?

Mine's the one with the anti-Wikimedia pamphlet in the pocket - oh no wait, it's been vaporized.

It's interesting to see the death of the once champions of the Internet, not to say the companies are going out of business, but to say they are killing what made the people get behind them, Google and Wikipedia are two good examples of it, selling out on the people who got them there. Thank god for wikileaks, till they get sued or the likes, you know, just to avoid there being any real balance!

I know there are all these people out there who love the idea of 'Free Speech' but I for one, as a parent, welcome some sort of control and accountability.

The internet is a free and open space and anyone can set up a system like Wikipedia. If you don't like the way a particular collection of information is censored then use another or set up your own. That's what the internet is all about.

I feel outraged at people like Eric Moeller, Ian Clarke or Mike Godwin who think that the sexual exploitation of children is a reasonable price to pay for freedom of speech.

"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover."

Well, "Wikipedophiles" now just *has* to become the official term for all wikipedia-lovers.

"Let's also remember that Seldon's big idea was toppled by a single Mule..."

no it was not. the second foundation triamned against the mule and the plan was put back on corse it is never reviles weather gia eventuley absorbes the foundation or not but as the latses time in the last book the foundation is right on corse

"the second foundation triamned against the mule and the plan was put back on corse it is never reviles weather gia eventuley absorbes the foundation or not but as the latses time in the last book the foundation is right on corse"

I know that it's bad form to point out grammatical mistakes etc, because it comes across as snobbish and intolerant, and it forces the critic to spend an age polishing his own grammar, so as not to be hoist by his own petard. That's a kind of bomb, I think. But seriously, what? Gia? Angelina Jolie's breasts?

"Well, "Wikipedophiles" now just *has* to become the official term for all wikipedia-lovers."

I second the motion....

I would suggest wikipods (yes, they're pod people).

Granted that the Trantorian branch of the Foundation pulled them out, but that was not due to any inherent strengths; just pure luck that the Mule had taken his name for one particular reason.

My hope would be that the current leadership of Jimbo's Foundation gets derailed in a similar way... and more permanently.

That aside, I'm not normally a stickler for correct spelling by others... but in the case of your comment, I am inclined to comment on it. I shall, however, tactfully refrain.

Coat, hat, exit.

While Wikimedia seems to be dealing with the PR over the complaints ineptly, the second one complaint is utter bollocks in the first place - the article in question carried a picture of an album cover that was sold worldwide for 30 years, which is hardly the kind of Horribly Noncey Abuse that the article implies.

[yes, Yanks are more uptight about nudity than everyone else; this reflects the fact that they ran away from Europe because it wasn't puritan enough...]

Let's just call them 'pedos.

Just to avoid any confusion you understand.