Comments on: Goodbye Myspace, Hello Wikipedia!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:41:13 +0000

I think you, Pete, suggested to me that I consider making and editing entries in Wikipedia. But the more I looked into it the more the scientist in me suggested that “the more more you know, the more you realize you don’t know”. So I have yet to do anything even on the subjects about which I might be considered an “expert”. Which makes me wonder about the gung ho approach that some wikipedians may have in discussing and describing things they actually don’t know much about! Of course, Wikipedia has excellent checks and balances and can even freeze out a discussion if it gets too contentious.

By: Nikki Allen

Nikki Allen — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:52:37 +0000

The beauty of MySpace is the community. It brings together people that have some good ideas but dont have the know how to make their own site/blog. I dont use it much, but many of my users do.

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:25:43 +0000

i hope this is a good thing

By: studiosonic

studiosonic — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:13:35 +0000

I can see how some people’s life can get taken over by Wikipedia…you do one new entry, and create wikilinks for some key words in your article…hold on…most of those links are red…then you feel an urge to make sure all your wiki links and blue, but when you then create a new page for one of your red wikilinks, it creates yet more red wikilinks….and it can go on and on and on!….

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:14:05 +0000

Hello BBC people...

By: Steve Block

Steve Block — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:13:10 +0000

Good grief, I’m finally famous. I’m glad to have inspired something positive, and I urge people to get involved. It really is quite simple, however, you can get sucked into the bureaucracy of the palace, which is why half those entries are still stubs.

By: matt b

matt b — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:04:14 +0000

Actually, Dave, you don’t need to register with Wikipedia to do something simple like correct spelling … you just press the ‘edit’ button, make the change and save it, done…

Sounds cool, Pete, good to get that info up there. I did contribute something one time myself, just a clarification of somebody else’s article about Louis-Ferdinand Celine… I’d just read his biography and noticed a mistake…

By: Garen

Garen — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:49:28 +0000

I have also had thoughts about contributing to Wikipedia. I enjoy researching the second anglo-afghan war (1878-1880) and noticed a factual error in an entry on Afghanistan, but I was a bit overwhelmed by it all to edit it… but it’s niggling at the back of my mind.. there’s wrong information out there! I should look into it.

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:34:34 +0000

Nice. I have a couple of early Escapes somewhere (one of them is the 3D glasses one) so if I stumble over them anytime soon I’ll let you know. I remember there was a chap called Chris Long who was, I think, a pretty regular contributor.

Oh, and I think it’s Francoise Mouly, not Mouley.

I know, I know, I should register with Wikipedia and edit it myself but now is not the time.

By: SM

SM — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:59:15 +0000

I noticed with a lot of the band sites on myspace that it seems to have a built in streaming audio player, so that they can easily preview new stuff. I get the impression thats why there’s a lot of music stuff on there.

And bravo on the wiki front. One day I’ll get around to building my index of Ghost Rider issues.

Or maybe not.