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'''THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENT [http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi INTERNET ORACLE]'''
The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
Oh Oracle Most Sublemon and Sublime,With the advent of Wikipedia, has the need for an Internet Oracle
passed?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
While both pass gibberish off as wisdom the problem with
Wikipedia is that precious few of its users realize it is
a joke, while it is rare to find anyone participating in
Oracle experience who isn't in on the gag.
You owe the Oracle an airplane piloted by passenger consensus.
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<span style="color:#236B8E">'''What is Wikipedia?'''</span>
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Wikipedia is a new paradigm in human discourse. It's a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument. In fact, Wikipedia is the largest and most comprehensive collection of arguments in human history, incorporating spats and vendettas on subjects ranging from Suleiman the Magnificent to Dan the Automator. As an unexpected side effect of being the perfect argument space, it's also a pretty good place to find information about all the characters from Battlestar: Galactica.
<span style="color:#236B8E">'''Yes, but what is there to argue about?'''</span>
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Well, Wikipedia exists in a state of quantum significance flux. It's simultaneously a shining, flawless collection of incontrovertible information, and a debased pile of meaningless words thrown together by uneducated lemurs with political agendas. It simply cannot exist in any state between these two extremes. You can test this yourself by expressing a reasonable opinion about the site in any public space. Whatever words you type, they will be interpreted by readers as supporting one of these two opposing views.
<span style="color:#236B8E">'''What should I know if I want to contribute to an argument nexus (or "article") on Wikipedia?'''</span>
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It will help to familiarize yourself with some of the common terms used on Wikipedia:
♠ Meat Puppet → A person who disagrees with you.
♠ Non-notable → A subject you're not interested in.
♠ Vandalism → An edit you didn't make.
♠ Neutral point of view → Your point of view.
♠ Consensus → A mythical state of utopian human evolution. Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.
<span style="color:#236B8E">'''Is it true that anyone can contribute?'''</span>
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Sure, Wikipedia is absolutely open to absolutely anyone contributing to absolutely anything! As long as you haven't been banned, or the article you're contributing to hasn't been locked, or there isn't a group of people waiting to delete anything you write, or you don't make the same change more than three times in one day, or the subject of the article hasn't decided to send scary lawyer letters to Wikipedia, or you haven't pissed Jimbo Wales off real bad. It's all about freedom.
Excerpt from ››› Wired News April 19th, 2006 by Lore Sjöberg
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