Nooooooo!! The proliferation of special purpose wiki encyclopedias has gone too far!
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In June 2005 a reader over at the old site suggested we put up some of our flu related material on Wikipedia. That sounded like a great idea to me. Even better, why not start a special purpose wiki -- a flu wiki -- to harvest the vast knowledge of the hivemind? Many, if not most, of the problems…
Tweaking the wackos refers. "James Pagett" wrote The Wonderful World of Wikipedia at WUWT complaining about the [[Soon-Baliunas controversy]] page. But despite the author knowing enough about wikipedia to have gotten himself topic-banned by arbcomm (which the post, oddly, doesn't have room to…
Last week, I wrote a rather lengthy (or, as my detractors would probably call it, "long-winded") post about the concept of a medical wikipedia. As you may recall, I expressed considerable skepticism about whether the wikipedia concept could work as well as its boosters claim it could. Even though…
While I was away over the weekend, a reader made me aware of a new development in the world of "alternative"--excuse me, "complementary and alternative"--medicine (a.k.a. CAM). I suppose I should have seen this coming. In retrospect, given the proliferation of wikis of seemingly every shape and for…
Nowhere near as good as the Muppet Wiki.
I find this latest "Wookie" most refreshing. At least it doesn't pretend to be true, unlike Conservapedia...
Or wikipedia
Would you rather have multiple page articles on Nute Gunray on Wikipedia itself? I think it's a good thing to sequester the prodigious fanwankery away from everything else...
Wookipedia has been around forever in internet terms -since 2005-, as has Memory Alpha (a wiki for Star Trek running since 2003- http://www.memory-alpha.org). At least their only hidden agendas involve exposing the depths of sci-fi geekery to the world.
And how about GodTube and IslamTube!
PZ, when are you going to start Cephelopedia?
You have to admit, though, that the name was just begging to be used. Internet geeks being what they are, the site would have been created whether or not it had the "pedia" suffix.
As a True Nerd, I personally really like Wookiepedia.
-Rob
Considering the state of coverage in the actual Wikipedia, isn't this a bit redundant?
Yes, we will soon need a wiki to keep track of them all.
Which reminds me of a scifi short story, where a galactic civilization dies because of a small misindexation, involving how to fix the index with the real data behind the index to the index to... to the index to the data. One misindexation leads to another. And the physical position of the raw data was of course in the index to the index to ...
Thank Google that won't happen to us...
I think they should make a Shyriiwook language Wikipedia. They already have Klingon.
On the plus side, for your class next year you could have the students make a wiki, and then have Pharyngulites keep it updated. No work on your part, and a good EvoDevo wiki online!
Hey PZ,
You heard of the Iron Chariots wiki yet?
http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
It is a counter-apologetics site, and they need help with content providers if anyone is interested.
Guys, please remember, WookiEEpedia, two E's. You could permanently lose your nerd cards for such an infraction!!
Finally! Jeez, what took them so long.
Farewell, Pharyngula! I have found a new love.
Yes we've know about iron chariots, islamtub and jewtube and conservapedia...
any thoughts on EvoWiki?
I don't have a problem with ultra-specialized wikis -- I find them extremely helpful in supporting my gaming habits.
Warcraft wiki
Kingdom of Loathing wiki
Puzzle Pirates wiki
Isn't wikipedia's primary function already to act as a repository for geek-minutiae? Why do we need a Wookieepedia or a BattlestarWiki or a StarTrek-Klingon-Language-TechManualWiki?
I think it would be better named "Wikisquidia," even if it does include articles on additional cephalopods.
Anyway, with Wookieepedia I at least have a chance of beating my kid at Trivial Pursuit Star Wars Edition. I'm not going to tell him about this one.
That's great, but I think Wookiepedia has too much liberal bias. BBY dating doesn't acknowledge the birth of Jesus. Someone should really make a conservative Wookiepedia for all us Star Wars creationist freaks who think the Wookie baramin were transported across the galaxies in Noah's Corellian freighter.
Upon seeing the name, I thought it would be an encyclopedia of Orac's essays on woo.
Nice to have a wiki that isn't called wiki-whatever.
What the world really needs. . .
. . . is a Klingon-language Wookieepedia!
Star Wars leaves me cold, but Wookieepedia makes me happy for one simple reason: it has ten times as many articles as Conservapedia.
Geoffrey:
Please, it's spelled Conservapaedia.
I was CERTAIN that clicking that like would give us a translation of Wikipedia into Wookie:
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Blake: I save that spelling for when they're around to be annoyed ;-)
I think you all have a case of Conservapaediaphilia.
Read it aloud. Sound it out.
And how about GodTube and IslamTube!
Yes, we will soon need a wiki to keep track of them all.
Which reminds me of a scifi short story, where a galactic civilization dies because of a small misindexation, involving how to fix the index with the real data behind the index to the index to... to the index to the data. One misindexation leads to another. And the physical position of the raw data was of course in the index to the index to ...
Thank Google that won't happen to us...