Does anyone here Wiki?

[petra]

I do (relatively new on the landscape though), and it's so ridiculously addictive. Stuey in particular, or Seb, or Lee, or Paul, would love it, I think. Researching and editing an encyclopedia which never has a final version is surprisingly pleasurable.

I'm White Hotel there, in case anyone wants to go vandalise my pages.

[stuhuggett]

I tried to prompt some Wikipedia action a few months ago, but no-one took me up on it. After I read that cruel entry on the Kersal massive the other day, I thought more on whether to start writing some entries myself, though I'd be paranoically checking them every few hours in case someone had written "This man has no/"Twinkie" " over them.
I always hope someone else is gonna write the biographies of the scene over here, I don't really want it to be left up to me in the end. I'm just a peripheral character in an as-yet unpublished book.

[petra]

That's my entry on the Kersal Massive and it isn't mean in the slightest! The only bit I didn't write was the part about them being c***s - I don't go in for class abuse. They won;t let me rv it, though, cos apparently it's NPOV to use class-abusive terms. OK wikibrain.

[stuhuggett]

Well, you did call them 'educationally subnormal' or something, which led me to expect some kind of Irwin Chusid discovery. Hip-Hop In The Key Of Z!

[petra]

Oh, no, that wasn't me either. 'Mentally subnormal children', right? Not me.

[stuhuggett]

The perils of Wikipedia! It may be entertaining, but surely it's free-editing makes it the most unreliable source of info on the web? After all, "You can prove anything with facts..."

[petra]

You'd think, but actually it's pretty well maintained by both bots and staff. bots look for quotes without citations and flag them, then remove them if they're not cited within a short while. anything controversial becomes the object of so much attention that it quickly descends into 'edit wars' with the most ridiculously persnickety combatants (check out the comedy edit wars page in the community section). add to that the fact that journalists regularly use wiki for free copy and research tips (so wiki is always on the look out for anything actionable), and you have a more or less self regulating animal.

[rashamon]

You betcha I wiki! It may be unreliable but its reliable enough for researching material for jokes.

The sad fact is that I only ever found out about wikipedia after I already knew about lostpedia (guess what that ones about).....

[petra]

Yay Lee, where's your user page?

[lee]

hah! thats far too technical for lazy old me.

[stuhuggett]

I've been on the boards so long this afternoon that my eyes are starting to ache, but I'm gonna check out this Wikipedia thing again before I log-off - see you later!

[stuhuggett]

Oh... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Huggett

[petra]

If you type in 'Petra Davis', it brings up a list of relevant pages, including that of Fatima Whitbread, at a frankly libellous 5.8% relevance. Asterisk: historical fact. Fortunately, I am changing my surname in the very near future.

[stuhuggett]

Wikipedia just came up trumps for the "Whatever happened to Delicate AWOL?" mystery... www.myspace.com/tellsband

EDIT: Of course, it now turns out I've had one of their tracks ever since I got this CD sampler www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000000421 from Everett True's garage sale (Tells are track 2). I'd listened to it and everything! I think I just kept getting distracted by I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives instead...

[stuhuggett]

Bexhill's Natalie's Box on Wikipedia - an 'Orphaned', probably soon-to-be-deleted, entry. Unless anyone can think of Wiki links to keep it online? Knowing Wikipedia's rules, I can't...

[stuhuggett]

I was Googling something about the Stereophonics for a pop quiz, when this popped up. Go on, look, it's a laugh.

[stuhuggett]

I've just created a Sussex Music wiki on www.wikia.com

I'm not every wiki-skilled, but you lot might be.