Comment by pavlov
4 years ago
It’s crazy how people feel entitled to have somebody else host their “thoughts” on the Internet.
As the project at hand shows, if Wikipedia doesn’t want to host your page, you can simply publish elsewhere.
4 years ago
It’s crazy how people feel entitled to have somebody else host their “thoughts” on the Internet.
As the project at hand shows, if Wikipedia doesn’t want to host your page, you can simply publish elsewhere.
Nobody is posting their “thoughts” on Wikipedia, it's for encyclopedic articles. By controlling the content of those, you control what many people consider the truth.
An encyclopedia is by definition curated and controlled. The brilliance of the Internet and open content licensing is that you can fork Wikipedia if you don’t like their editorial choices. This wasn’t possible with a thirty-volume print edition of Britannica.
Of course if you want to make people look to your version instead of the one at wikipedia.org, you probably need to invest in marketing. In theory nothing stops you from becoming the new source of authority — after all Wikipedia has only held this role for less than twenty years, and nobody remembers what was the #1 result site for these search queries then.