Comments on: 8 Sister Wikis from Wikipedia We Should Be Aware About

By: Boar Sebastian

Boar Sebastian — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:54:13 +0000

You forgot to mention Wikitravel, it served us greatly when we travel abroad.
And you main mentin the Uncyclopedia;)

By: Slartibartfarst

Slartibartfarst — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:55:17 +0000

Of the various Wikis that are on the net, I mostly use Wikipedia. However, when it comes to creating Wikipedia articles (I have created a few) or contributing to existing Wikipedia articles (I have contributed to quite a few), over the last year I have increasingly tended to use Google Knol – simply because I can control the thing.

This is because I have become heartily sick and tired of people spamming or vandalising articles, or – which is worse – making moronic or ignorant or biased (opinionated or “point of view”) changes to articles. The latter completely destroys the potential value of what could otherwise be a pithy and objective piece of knowledge.

Wikipedia is the poor man’s Enc. Britannica. For absolutely reliable and academically well-researched knowledge, give me the Enc. Britannica, every time.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:42:59 +0000

@Keef – Wikileaks isn’t actually associated with Wikipedia at all – it’s a wiki and it uses the same MediaWiki software, that’s all. But it does show that the software can be put to all sorts of uses by people!

By: keef

keef — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:15:52 +0000

raccomand WIKILEAKS

By: Dreamparlour

Dreamparlour — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:24:27 +0000

Blame it on the comprehensiveness of Wikipedia itself, that we rarely go beyond it…though I do sometimes use Wikimedia Commons.