I just got pages served without any formatting. Thought it was our dodgy internet connection to be honest :)
Wikipedia collapses threatening the very fabric of civilisation
Fount-of-dubious-knowledge Wikipedia has gone down around the world, prompting a Twitter frenzy from people struggling to remember how to open books. The anyone-can-try-to-edit encyclopaedia won't serve a page at all beyond a placeholder "error" message, but an announcement on the Wikimedia Foundation's site stated that …
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Monday 6th August 2012 14:46 GMT Anonymous Coward 101
The library is seen as some sort of mystical place that people go to to learn Important Stuff and librarians are there to help people find the books they need to learn the Important Stuff.
Yet, for as long as I can remember, they have mainly been used by old people to obtain crap books that have pictures of beaten-but-unbowed Victorian lasses on the front cover.
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Tuesday 7th August 2012 13:10 GMT some vaguely opinionated bloke
@Brewster's Angle Grinder
"The nearest reference library to me is an hours drive away. (And then an hour's drive back.) "
Have an unsarcastic beer on me.
I have no idea why that made me laugh as much as it did. Just something about it clarifying that the route and typical traffic conditions are the same in both directions.
"It's a 45 minute drive before the morning rush hour and only 1/2 hour back when the schools are off or after 9 at night. If I leave the car there, it's closer to 3 hours, unless I take the shortcut across the misty heathland..."
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Monday 6th August 2012 15:52 GMT LinkOfHyrule
It's actually quite good for...
...typing in the name of a movie and scrolling down to the subheading named "critical reception" - it loads fester than the other movie review websites, you can be in and out in less than 5 seconds if you just want to quickly know if something on Netflix sucks or not!
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Wednesday 8th August 2012 09:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Well, you consider wrong, sir.
Do you want to borrow a clog to throw in a combine harvester?
Most of it is correct. As higher percentage than you'll see correct on most fan sites or other free sites. And unlike those, Wiki includes links to sources, which other sites do not.
You know to check more than one source, and look for primary evidence, don't you? Wiki allows you to do that.
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Monday 6th August 2012 15:11 GMT Charles Calthrop
PLEASE
can we not have screenshots of random people's twitter status embedded in your stories. I have seen this elsewhere but thought I'd be safe on here. It might help internally to promote your strategy to humanise the channel flow and synergise your content sreams or some other bollocks but I DO NOT CARE WHAT RANDOM PEOPLE ON TWITTER THINK AND IF I DID I"D BE ON TWITTER NOT ON EL REG
Rip el reg gravestone icon
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Monday 6th August 2012 15:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: It's just an outage, people !
What makes you think teachers are any different to rest of the population, most of which is seemingly too lazy to do "proper" research?
Is it better to make a half-arsed attempt to learn something, or to dismiss it altogether because you can't be arsed going to the library?
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Tuesday 7th August 2012 11:05 GMT heyrick
Re: It's just an outage, people !
While I wouldn't verbatim quote stuff from wiki without verifying some of the references, the difference problem with a library is that it only carries the reference material somebody has pre-selected, may or may not be able to order other books from associate libraries, which may or may not arrive in a sensible time frame. Neither approach is perfect, but at least with the wiki references, it gives you a list of places to begin looking for more information.
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