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Wikipedia articles like this bug me. It is a well written introduction to the project, but why is that on the Wikipedia? Put that on your own website! I wish mo
by mxcrossb 7y ago
Wikipedia articles like this bug me. It is a well written introduction to the project, but why is that on the Wikipedia? Put that on your own website! I wish more people would follow wikipedia’s very clean and easy style.
This is of course why the article can’t follow wikipedia’s citation rules. And also all the references just link to articles by one group, so the article can’t give you any real context. Is this a serious, notable work? Or is someone just boosting their search rankings with a Wikipedia link?
- chadlavi 7y agoIt seems like the latter, though if so, it's surprising to me that it hasn't been removed. Wikipedia's editors are pretty brutal about the notoriety threshold.
- pessimizer 7y agoOnly with things in which editors exist who feel confident enough (sometimes wrongly) to judge their notability. You can completely make up pages describing concepts in obscure fields, as long if you can generate a citation or three - bonus points if the papers cited are unintelligible to all but a few dozen people in the world, and don't even mention the concept.
- edtechdev 7y agoYeah, why would something well-written be on Wikipedia? It's definitely not more notable than a list of butterflies on stamps of Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_on_stamps_of_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_on_stamps_...
- throwaway744678 7y agoThis would have been cooler if they had written the page in the language itself (going meta, here)
- avmich 7y agoMore appropriate would be to have English Wikipedia translated wholesale to ACE. In that one the article about ACE would be naturally in ACE.
- throwaway744678 7y agoSounds great, let's go and fork Wikipedia.
- garmaine 7y agoHeh, it actually bugged me while reading that it wasn’t written in ACE.