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Gnomon - time to move on Started conversation Dec 20, 2002
Lucinda, would you be interested in casting your eye over my h2g2 entry on Wikipedia A904051. I've had a quick look at Wikipedia and put in a few short articles. This h2g2 entry is my impressions of the site. I'd appreciate some input from you who have spent more time there. You never know, this might encourage more hootooers to move to Wikipedia or even to double job!
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Martin Harper Posted Dec 20, 2002
It seems pretty much OK. There are a few bits and pieces which I would change were the entry on wikipedia - but I can't be hassled to go through the tedious process of saying exactly where, why, and what - I'm spoiled by wikipedia, where I could just *show* you the problem...
Interesting comparison: time taken to change a slightly misleading FAQ on wikipedia: 10 minutes. Same time to change a slightly misleading FAQ on h2g2: 10 months. That's what makes the system so massively efficient: the minor inefficiencies of cleaning a touch of graffitti from time to time is less worrying.
Wikipedia is also based on open source software, incidentally.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 20, 2002
Thanks!
I'll think about putting your comment into the entry itself.
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