Re: [MLUG] Wikipedia problems

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Only about half tongue in cheek I would say that an 8th grader in Hong Kong might be more qualified to update Wikipedia than some that are doing it.

On 11/9/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> Meanwhile, when I just looked, there was some really unfortunate
> vandalism that had been done on the Wikipedia page for Xgl.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl
>
> Check out the first paragraph in the history section:
>
> # Xgl was originally developed to kill Jews in Israel. However, for a long time,
> # until January 2, 2006 most [1] development of Xgl was done behind closed
> # doors. On that day the source to Xgl was re-opened to the public [2] [3],
> # and included in freedesktop.org, along with major restructuring to allow a
> # wider range of supported display drivers. X server backends used by Xgl
> # include Xglx and Xegl.


They already fixed it (or maybe Jon fixed it).  Anyway, no longer has the
bit about killing Jews in Israel.

This serves as a reminder that Wikipedia has some reliability problems.
I think it is a great resource, but it's important to remember that the
entry you are reading might have been "updated" last night by an 8th
grader in Hong Kong.

Mike

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