Faggotry?

[FONT=&quot]Darren O’Leary[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11/13/2007[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]English 401[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]How Wikipedia Reflects Upon the American Culture[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]One aspect of the American culture is that, with advances in technology making virtually every part of our lives easier, people desire service faster, and more conveniently, than ever before. This can be seen in today’s world, with such examples as fast food, online banking, and drive-through ATM’s. Another way in which it can be seen is through the public’s usage of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The entire project began on March 9th, 2000, with the founding of Nupedia (a free online encyclopedia, written by experts, and formally reviewed). Nupedia was a free-content encyclopedia, at first using its own private open-content license, then switching to the GNU Free Documentation License.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Wikipedia was officially launched on January 15th, 2001, as a supplement to Nupedia (an encyclopedia edited by experts). Like Nupedia at the end of its days, Wikipedia also uses the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that its content is freely available for use by anybody.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The chief difference between Nupedia and Wikipedia, apart from their differences in success, is that Nupedia relied on people who were experts in a field to make contributions. This would require people to have their credentials revealed, their anonymity stripped away, and it greatly limited the number of contributors. In contrast, Wikipedia allows anybody to edit their articles, resulting in a far larger editor base than Nupedia, at a possible expense of quality. Indeed, there have been several incidences of vandalism within Wikipedia, where somebody would edit the information in the article so as to make it less accurate, for the purposes of sport, or spite. Nevertheless, this has not turned out to be the undoing of Wikipedia, but rather, its greatest strength. Nupedia had a total of 24 articles by the time it was taken down, whereas currently, Wikipedia has 2,090,766 articles in English alone, clearly showing its superiority (in terms of popularity) to Nupedia.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In August 2007, Virgil Giffith, a computer science graduate student, released WikiScanner, a program that traces who edits Wikipedia.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Other problems with Wikipedia, other than the ability of anybody to edit it, are its tendency to favor the consensus of its users over a minority who may have credentials. If a majority of users disagree with a large change made by one user with credentials, the change will be reversed, and their contribution ignored.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The primary manner in which Wikipedia reflects upon the American culture is that it is a fast, convenient manner through which to obtain information. This motif is reflected throughout the entire culture, as[/FONT]






Yes, I know that it's shitty, and choppy, but eh.
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Did you write that? If not...

YOUR MOTHER.

 

Darren O’Leary
11/13/2007
English 401
How Wikipedia Reflects Upon the American Culture
One aspect of the American culture is that even the with advances in technology making virtually every part of our lives easier, people desire service faster, better, and more convenient services than ever before. This can be seen in today’s world within certain businesses such as the fast food industry, online banking companies, and mail-order DVD services. This same impact can also be seen throughout an average day via drive-through ATM’s at every mall, the reliance on credit cards instead of cash, and the expansion of high-speed internet networks. Another way in which it can be seen is through the massive amount of users of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
The entire project first began on March 9th, 2000, with the founding of Nupedia (a free online encyclopedia that was written by experts and formally reviewed although lacking a large selection of articles). Nupedia was a free-content encyclopedia, at first using its own private open-content license, then switching to the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wikipedia (an encyclopedia written and edited by the masses) was officially launched on January 15th, 2001, as a supplement to Nupedia (an encyclopedia edited by experts). Like Nupedia at the end of its days, Wikipedia also uses the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that its content is freely available for use by anybody.
The chief difference between Nupedia and Wikipedia, apart from their differences in success, is that Nupedia relied on people who were experts in a field to make contributions. This would require people to have their credentials revealed, their anonymity stripped away, and it greatly limited the number of contributors. In contrast, Wikipedia allows anybody to edit their articles, resulting in a far larger editor base than Nupedia, at a possible expense of quality. Indeed, there have been many repetitive incidences of vandalism within Wikipedia, where somebody would edit the information in the article so as to make it less accurate, for the purpose of sport, spite, or sheer ignorance. Nevertheless, this has not turned out to be the undoing of Wikipedia, but rather, its greatest strength. Nupedia had a total of 24 articles by the time it was taken down, whereas currently, Wikipedia has 2,090,766 articles in English alone, clearly showing its superiority (in terms of popularity and content) to Nupedia.
In August 2007, Virgil Giffith, a computer science graduate student, released WikiScanner, a program that traces who edits Wikipedia. This enabled users, if necessary, to track down whoever last edited the article. Other problems with Wikipedia other than the ability of anybody with an opinion, mouse, and keyboard to edit it are its tendency to favor the consensus of its users over a minority who may have credentials. If a majority of users disagree with a large change made by one user with credentials, the change will be reversed, and their contribution ignored.
The primary manner in which Wikipedia reflects upon the American culture is that it is a fast, convenient manner through which to obtain information. This motif is reflected throughout the entire American culture, in a way, everything we are is becoming more and more like Wikipedia. We are a nation obsessed with making things faster and easier to do, which could end up being our greatest strength or our most deadly weakness.

 

It is human natured to demand things at a quicker speed, as we progress as a species the standards for living do as well.

 

What Did You Say?
I Cant Hear You Because I Have A Carrot In My Nose!
I Sayd I Cant Fly Because I Have A Carrot In My Nose!

 

ok well idk.
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Darren O'Leary.

Ah, the Irishness.

 

Hi,

At the risk of a flaming, and rightly so, as this is my first post and off topic! But I really need some advice.

My wife and I are planning on emigrating to Dubai, UAE as a new job opportunity awaits me there.
It's obviously a big step and I'm exctited about moving but I've heard both good and bad things about the place.

Before I move my family, quit my job etc. I;d be grateful if anyone here has ever been there/or has any experience. Also what are living costs and the cost of Dubai property?
I'd really appreciate any feedback.


Regards

Jake

 

LMAO, that is one of the most random posts in response to a topic I've ever seen.

 

Wow...

 

FUCKING FAG SHIT FUCK ASSHOLE NIGGERFAGGET FUCKk

 

You said GNU. Lolcakes