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Re: I Love Wikipedia

vive la insurrection — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:23:55 GMT

There's an argument about whether hipsters can be libertarians!

I wonder if in today's world Ayn Rand would call us "the hipsters of the right"

Re: I Love Wikipedia

mikachusetts — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:25:37 GMT

The talk pages are a real treat. There's an argument about whether hipsters can be libertarians!

Re: I Love Wikipedia

vive la insurrection — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:01:24 GMT

That is nowhere near as amazing as the 3 archived pages of endless discussion and debates that went on to see the page you read now

Re: I Love Wikipedia

mikachusetts — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:54:08 GMT

A critical analysis of hipsterdom.

My favorite quote:

"Both groups, meanwhile, look down on the couch-surfing, old-clothes-wearing hipsters who seem most authentic but are also often the most socially precarious — the lower-middle-class young, moving up through style, but with no backstop of parental culture or family capital."

I want to see an austrian analysis of cultural capital in the hipster sub-culture.

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Fool on the Hill — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:10:34 GMT

Yeah, he is, apparently.

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Cortes — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:12:34 GMT

I find hilarious the inherent absurdity of "WP:NPOV". I have wasted far too much time going through talk page comment wars of contentious articles and seeing all the bickering sides hold its torch and pander to it like some vague Holy Grail. What a bludgeon for abuse that concept has become.

This comment on Tucker's Mises blog entry (btw, "Potentional"? lol) is quite succinct (no idea if Jimmy Wales actually is an Objectivist. That would be hilarious):

this wales fellow, an objectivist, got the idea that you could design and implement a formal system which would encompass liberty. that’s right: freedom by prescription.

the creators are forced to go so far as to fashion ridiculous orwellian concepts such as “NPOV” which basically means “play semantic games to ensure that an article’s POV does not look like one.” unfortunately, the choice of which facts to include is itself one made subjectively. POV is inescapable, unless entirely meaningless, in which case, why bother trying to eradicate it?

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Fool on the Hill — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:39:28 GMT

Thanks for posting those links, John. Very interesting.

Re: I Love Wikipedia

John James — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:20:54 GMT

Yeah there's this:

Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica

Experts rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

But there's also this...

Potentional Problem with the Wikipedia Oligarchy

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Cortes — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:11:01 GMT

Wikipedia's great... except for megalomaniac, militant, absolutely humorless editors who form wikipedia editcults, turning many contentious articles into their little internet juntas that only echo their point of view. (too many examples of this, biggest that comes to mind is that global warmist zealot dude)

Kind of a nice microcosm reflecting our society really. Planned chaos (crazy wiki editor cults) vs Emerging order (the rest of the damn internet using it)

Otherwise yaayy wikipedia...

Re: I Love Wikipedia

vive la insurrection — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:32:11 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Merlin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:14:33 GMT

The ultimate real-life example of emerging order. All hail Wikipedia!

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Andris Birkmanis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:12:53 GMT

Do not forget "Orientation of 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'".

Oh, wait, this is just a special case of the article you mentioned... :)

Re: I Love Wikipedia

vive la insurrection — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:24 GMT

Ariticles we should do:

Ron Paul's car

Ron Paul's Belt

TV apperances of Ron Paul

Handiness of economists

Luwig von Mises in pop culture (ex: http://mises.org/books/batman/)

Re: I Love Wikipedia

EmperorNero — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:11:47 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

Left-handed people are secretly ruling the world. It's a conspiracy!

Re: I Love Wikipedia

Nielsio — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:59:58 GMT

http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/comments/oxckh/wikipedia_founder_jimmy_wales_libertarian_who/