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"Again, please remember that Wikipedia is a utopian social experiment; we all know that as such it is doomed to fail, but I'd like to see how far scholars of good faith can push it before genuine trolls and other vandals destroy all our work here."
User:Hillman Chris Hillman
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(Hillman has since left Wikipedia.)
Wikipedia: A Techno-Cult of Ignorance by Paulo Correa, M.Sc., Ph.D. Alexandra Correa, H.BA. Malgosia Askanas, Ph.D. ( User:Helicoid) ISBN 1-894840-36-4
"ANTI-WIKIPEDIA
"Is Wikipedia a new fascism of knowledge perpetrated by disaffected leftists: a Wackopedia?
"The following is a manifesto against Wikipedia - against its pretensions to being encyclopedic; against its false claims of openness; against its representation of a democratic access to, and democratic enunciation of, knowledge; against its institutionalized falsification of facts; against its sordid attempts to monopolize knowledge and rewrite history by blanking out parts of our collective memory and replacing them with imprimaturs. Yes, those are all aspects of the cyberbureaucratic fraud that Wikipedia is committing wholesale upon knowledge. The fraud that consists of producing false knowledge on an encyclopedic scale. Now, that's notable about Wikipedia, if nothing else is.
"The facts and events related in this document unfolded in the course of an attempt to place in Wikipedia a factual and informative entry on the topic of Aetherometry. The unequal, rigged war which ensued crystallized perfectly what is corrupt and perverse in the workings of the wikipedian enterprise, and the utter impossibility for such an enterprise to produce anything even close to a factual and balanced reference source.
"The term "Wikipedia" is a neologism designed to sound as if it denoted an encyclopedia, a community project developing and functioning through an effort of 'self-regulation'. That's what Wikipedia strives to be, right? Wrong.
"It is more like a Wackopedia of the 'pediaphiles' and perverts of knowledge, the cyberpriests of infantilized knowledge. ... [fair use quote] http://www.aetherometry.com/antiwikipedia/awp_index.html
Mini book review: A jumble of overheated prose, inaccurate, partial arguments. The kind of thing the internet was made for. I enjoyed it immensely.
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There are many worthwhile User pages on wikipedia, but yours is probably not listed because I hadn't started making this list when I saw it. I am open to suggestions, if you have some favorites of your own.
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