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'''Wikipedia''' encourages contribution of [[free content]] articles on any subject, with some [[almanac]]-like and [[gazetteer]]-like information. It claims to be an [[encyclopedia]], however, has none of the standard means of avoiding a [[systemic bias]] or [[validation]] or [[attribution]] such a project would require. It does not even have a chief [[editor]]. | '''Wikipedia''' encourages contribution of [[free content]] articles on any subject, with some [[almanac]]-like and [[gazetteer]]-like information. It claims to be an [[encyclopedia]], however, has none of the standard means of avoiding a [[systemic bias]] or [[validation]] or [[attribution]] such a project would require. It does not even have a chief [[editor]]. | ||
For this reason, [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News as reported by Wikimedia News], it was "nominated by http://www.google.com for deletion as ''a collection of unrelated items put together by non-professionals and therefore clearly worthless.''" This was an April Fool's joke and thus is not at all accurate | For this reason, [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News as reported by Wikimedia News], it was "nominated by http://www.google.com for deletion as ''a collection of unrelated items put together by non-professionals and therefore clearly worthless.''" | ||
:This was an April Fool's joke and thus is not at all accurate, thus the joke is on the [[trolls]] that took this trollishness seriously | |||
== management == | == management == | ||