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<blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3941557" data-attributes="member: 38324"><p>Planescape has the <a href="http://planewalker.com/encyclopedia/index.php" target="_blank">Encyclopedia of the planes</a>, which uses different software than Wikipedia (it's something the local webmistress came up with), but does much the same thing. It's still editable if you have a forum account there. </p><p></p><p>I read what I thought was a pretty clever essay on Wikipedia on <a href="http://www.alexandraerin.com/?p=36" target="_blank">this blog</a>, which said, among other things, "Wikipedia... is determined to spend the coin of its own relevance as quickly as it can earn it by chasing the chimera of academic respectability at the expense of its own natural areas of strength... While Britannica and other venerable institutions of the encyclopedia business struggle with the question of, 'How do we remain relevant in this ever-changing world?', Wikipedia’s asking the question, 'How can I get to be where Britannica is now?' I’m reminded of a cartoon Kris Straub drew of a man motoring out to catch the sinking Titanic, as a metaphor for a cartoonist chasing a syndication deal."</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, a lot of the D&D articles - like a lot of Wikipedia's pop-cultural articles in general, and to some degree Wikipedia articles in general - are so filled with errors, fanon, and other junk that the only solution I can see is to torpedo them and start over from scratch. Or else they boil down to only a line or two of real information and aren't much of a loss. That's why I'm spending free time editing the Greyhawk wiki rather than bothering to make corrections or additions to Wikipedia articles that are likely to get deleted eventually anyway.</p><p></p><p>I <em>do</em> like Wikipedia, and use it for reference all the time. I bet most of us do. The fact that it's editable means that articles do tend to improve with time (compare the present Graz'zt article to the original one!), and errors that accrete <em>after</em> it's been improved tend to get eliminated quickly by better-informed editors who are watching it. I don't think it's a failed experiment by any means. It definitely has its weaknesses, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ripzerai, post: 3941557, member: 38324"] Planescape has the [url=http://planewalker.com/encyclopedia/index.php]Encyclopedia of the planes[/url], which uses different software than Wikipedia (it's something the local webmistress came up with), but does much the same thing. It's still editable if you have a forum account there. I read what I thought was a pretty clever essay on Wikipedia on [url=http://www.alexandraerin.com/?p=36]this blog[/url], which said, among other things, "Wikipedia... is determined to spend the coin of its own relevance as quickly as it can earn it by chasing the chimera of academic respectability at the expense of its own natural areas of strength... While Britannica and other venerable institutions of the encyclopedia business struggle with the question of, 'How do we remain relevant in this ever-changing world?', Wikipedia’s asking the question, 'How can I get to be where Britannica is now?' I’m reminded of a cartoon Kris Straub drew of a man motoring out to catch the sinking Titanic, as a metaphor for a cartoonist chasing a syndication deal." On the other hand, a lot of the D&D articles - like a lot of Wikipedia's pop-cultural articles in general, and to some degree Wikipedia articles in general - are so filled with errors, fanon, and other junk that the only solution I can see is to torpedo them and start over from scratch. Or else they boil down to only a line or two of real information and aren't much of a loss. That's why I'm spending free time editing the Greyhawk wiki rather than bothering to make corrections or additions to Wikipedia articles that are likely to get deleted eventually anyway. I [i]do[/i] like Wikipedia, and use it for reference all the time. I bet most of us do. The fact that it's editable means that articles do tend to improve with time (compare the present Graz'zt article to the original one!), and errors that accrete [i]after[/i] it's been improved tend to get eliminated quickly by better-informed editors who are watching it. I don't think it's a failed experiment by any means. It definitely has its weaknesses, though. [/QUOTE]
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