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- Pseudopedia
How many students have
relied on false
information from Wikipedia? ...
- The Matrix Series
The Matrix Series consists of the film
trilogy and animated shorts: The
Matrix (1999), The Animatrix
(2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003),
and The Matrix Revolutions (2003),
as well as the video games and other
literature, all produced, or written and
directed by the Wachowski Brothers. ...
- Wikitruth
Wikitruth is a website that critiques
and lampoons Pseudopedia. It runs
on the MediaWiki software but is not editable
by the public; it has a limited GFDL content of about 137
articles, composed by about a dozen
contributorsweblink, but
appears to attract a disproportionate amount
of traffic.
The site posits that there are
fundamental problems with Wikipedia's
structure, focusing in part on actions and
statements from prominent Wikimedia
Foundation members like Jimmy Wales; the concept of
vandalism; claimed censorship; and
aspects of the culture of Wikipedia. It is
also a self-described "scandal sheet" that
castigates certain Wikipedia administrators
and Wikimedia Foundation members for
perceived character flaws.
Although the
tone tends to be caustic and obscene, the
underlying intent, according to the site, is
to improve Wikipedia: "Make no mistake, we
wouldn't be bitching this much about
Wikipedia and Wikipedian failings if we
didn't, at the core, love the whole concept.
... We really do think the basic idea is
great; it's the implementation we
have issues with." ...
- Wikipedia Review
Wikipedia
Review is an internet
discussion forum and blog for the
critical discussion of Pseudopedia and other
Wikimedia projects.
History:
The
original version of Wikipedia Review was
hosted at ProBoards in November
2005 by Igor Alexander. In December 2005,
Igor Alexander gave up administration to Blu
Aardvark. ...
- The Illusion of Choice
The protected articles included
below by M.R.M. Parrott first appeared on
rimric folio in
2003.
Older Than
You Know:
In the passage of years
following that big year for Matrix
fans, 2003, and of course, the breakthrough
in 1999, I find the "trilogy", "franchise",
or just "series", as more and more
relevant to today's world, while also
striking themes far older. ...
- Pseudopedia/General Criticisms
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- Pseudopedia/Policy Criticisms
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- Pseudopedia/Cases
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- Wikinfo
Wikinfo was inspired by
Fred Bauder in 2003, based on Wikipedia, but
differed in that articles were to be written
from a "Sympathetic Point of View" (SPOV). ...
- WikiSphere
WikiSphere, like
"Blogosphere" (or "BlogoSphere"), refers to
the collection of all Wikis on the
internet, and may be used in CamelCase form. ...
- MeatballWiki
Meatball, or
"MeatballWiki", is a wiki dedicated
to online communities, culture and hypermedia. Its
original goal was to focus on collaborative
hypermedia but topics have ranged from Intellectual
Property to Cyberpunk to the
confusion of URIs.
Meatball also hosts various project journals,
and in particular, has influenced much of the
design of UseModWiki, considered
a "classic" wiki software package.
Because
of its role as a "community about
communities", it has become the launching
point for various other wiki-based projects,
and a central resource for the wider WikiSphere. While its
aims do not explicitly include becoming a
center of this community, the
content it produces is well-suited to use as
reference materials elsewhere. ...
- Forum:Interesting Films
THX 1138:
After watching the new DVD
release of George Lucas's THX
1138, I cannot get the themes out of my
mind. ...
- Ibiblio
ibiblio (formerly
SunSITE and
MetaLab) is a digital library and archive
project run jointly by the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Center
for the Public Domain. It is a "collection of
collections", and hosts a diverse range of
publicly available information and open source software. It also
offers streaming audio radio stations.
Unless otherwise specified, all material on
ibiblio is assumed to be in the public
domain.
History:
What
is now ibiblio was founded in 1992 by the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as
SunSITE. SunSITE was to be an archive and an
information sharing project for the public,
and was funded by grants from Sun
Microsystems, thus the name. The relationship
with Sun came to an amicable end, according
to the ibiblio FAQ,
and the name was changed to MetaLab. ...
- PseudoPhilosophy
PseudoPhilosophy is any
idea or system that masquerades itself as Philosophy while
significantly failing to meet some suitable
intellectual standards. The term is
frequently pejorative, and most
applications of it are quite contentious. The
term bears the same relationship to
Philosophy that PseudoScience bears
to Science, or Anti-Matter to Matter.
The term is
often used more casually to express contempt,
irritation, or just dislike toward some idea
or system of ideas. It is not, for the most
part, used technically within academic Philosophy, though it
is likely to occur in philosophers' judgments
on larger aspects of culture, their advice to
new students, their assessments of other
disciplines, and so forth.
Nicholas Rescher, in The
Oxford Companion to Philosophy, defines
pseudo-philosophy as "deliberations
that masquerade as philosophical but are
inept, incompetent, deficient in intellectual
seriousness, and reflective of an
insufficient commitment to the pursuit of
truth." Rescher adds that the term is
particularly appropriate when applied to
"those who use the resources of reason to
substantiate the claim that rationality is
unachievable in matters of inquiry."
Pseudophilosophy in
Academia:
An example of poor academic
judgement of PseudoPhilosophy was the episode
when W.V.O. Quine, along
with Barry Smith, Hugh
Mellor (then Professor of Philosophy at
Cambridge), and various other academic
philosophers, wrote to protest Cambridge
University's award of an honorary degree
to Jacques Derrida,
claiming that Derrida's work "does not meet
accepted standards of clarity and rigor" and
that it is made of "tricks and gimmicks
similar to those of the Dadaists". ...
- Freshmeat
Freshmeat (freshmeat.net) is a
website that allows programmers of POSIX tools and their users
to find each other.
Programmers register
their projects and inform the site about
updates; users browse for software and
download and (sometimes) rate or comment on
the software. Software is categorized by
field of application, license,
development status, environment, intended
audience, type of use, supported operating
systems, and used programming
and available natural languages.
Furthermore, Freshmeat offers
customizable news on software updates, a news
ticker stream, articles on Unix
software-related topics and an IRC channel.
Some content adapted from the Pseudopedia article
"Fresh
meat" under the GNU
Free Documentation License. ...
- Timeless
Timeless is a word which describes being
(or "Being") without beginning
or end, an eternal or everlasting quality,or
being restricted to no particular time. ...
- Forum:Wikinfo
is wikinfo dead?:
Wow,
Fred has made some radical changes very
quickly over there! ...
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