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What to do

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Happy Jimmy Wales day. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons user Joi
  • People may be embarrassed to admit that they don't know as much about computers as their parents think they do.[1] Young people's use of computers may be increasingly recreational and social.[1]
  • So who's minding the store? I think criminals had a twenty-five year head start. And I suspect men, and in general not women, feel they must write software. I don't have enough computer science education to hold a light on a candle but I think some people are more talented than others.
  • Google PageRank gives en.wikipedia.org 8 out of 10. Why? 98% of Wikipedia users are users and not editors. They depend on the 2% of us who write this encyclopedia to know what they know. Believe it or not Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia recommended by the Free Software Foundation,[2] at one time home of Richard Stallman who invented the idea of a free encyclopedia. I worry that consensus-based creations that allow anonymous and Internet editing belong in utopias, not reality, and not in the world's de facto primary reference work.

References

  1. ^ a b (Harley, Judith and David) Harley, David and Ken Bechtel, Michael Blanchard, Henk K. Diemer, Andrew Lee, Igor Muttik, Bojan Zdrnja (August 2007). AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise. Syngress, via Amazon Search Inside This Book. p. 326. ISBN 1597491640. Retrieved 2008-10-12.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Free Software Foundation. "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource". Retrieved 2008-10-12. {{cite web}}: Text "1999–2008" ignored (help)