was wikipedia actually "started by a bunch of rayndians"?

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This is how I heard ti described somewhere, can someone disabuse me?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

rayndians?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

couldn't you look it up in wikipedia?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Who cares?

Not to be offensive or anything but...how does/should/would this change anyone's reading of the wikipedia?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

.....not that it isn't an interesting question. Just sayin'.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait a minute. What the fuck time is it in Australia right now?!

Say hello to Poodles for me (you don't know him).

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

australia has multiple time zones, it really depends where poodles is. it's lunchtime here! i don't know if poodles eat lunch though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, you know what I mean. Hahaha. "Ayn Randian".

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

it was started by a bunch of raelians

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Wikipedia said indie started after Nirvana became big and so the other alternative music had to have some other name (WTF!!!!) so wiki can kiss my grits.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true that "indie" wasn't nearly as common a tag in the U.S. until after the "alternative" thing happened. I first knew "indie" as a U.K. term.

Wikipedia seems a little communal for Randians, but who knows. I suppose they're not all as misanthropic as the lady herself.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 May 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

from wikipedia:

"Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an Internet entrepreneur and a wiki enthusiast, best known for founding Wikipedia."
"Wales admires the objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand, and while in graduate school owned and moderated an Internet mailing list known as the "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy." He also takes an interest in firearms policy and constitutional law."

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

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 19 May 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess he's showing us we don't need the government to build an Internet encyclopedia. There's still something pretty collectivist about the whole thing (purely voluntary, of course, but even so). I'm not sure Ayn would approve.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 May 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Trayce, the whole point is that if you find something inaccurate you can and should change it.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I met Jimmy Wales at a talk he gave a few weeks ago, "Wikipedia: Bridging the Digital Divide" -- it was a big discussion on how to take some of what the wikipedia is doing and get it off the web and into books, CDs, anything. He may have had great interest in Randian ideas in grad school, but he seems to have swayed pretty far into the realm of spreading good things to those in need. Years of being independently wealthy maybe bring out the philanthropic feelings?

Anyway, who cares who Wikipedia was founded by...its a cool project, with lots of excited people working hard with little compensation on a useful project.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It was started by a cabal of Methodist crypto-Jews.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean Objectivists?

I'm assuming you somehow contracted 'Ayn Rand' (THE Objectivist 'philosopher') into 'Raynd' and then added a suffix onto that.

If that's not the case, then I have absolutely no idea what you mean.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Duh.. Wikipedia was started by street Wiccans.. or "wikis"

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I'm kidding, it was started by the little aliens that sang in Newcleus's "Jam On It".

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan: well I should have probably added a friend of mine did update it, and made a new category, but indie is one of those things no one will ever agree on anyway, I was just being silly really.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew that's exactly what happened, as I noted above.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"I won't be part of any club that would have me as a member."

Who coined that phrase?

I thought of it today as I typed the BOTA Tarot wikipedia entry.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought it was strange that this weird dead-end avatar of "individualism" (humanism??!!Q maybe not so dead-end?) would name herself after her typewriter, which seems like the very embodiment of the democratization of letters.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway gypsy don't you think HE would think she would approve? "Jimmy Wales"? I wonder how the argument would run.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Who coined that phrase?

groucho marx

― zappi (joni), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This Ayn Rand fellow isn't really known outside the US, is she? Even though I've read philosophy, I had never heard of her until I stumbled accross her name on the Internet a couple of years ago. Anyway, judging from the Wikipedia article, I can't see how her "objectivism" differs from classical liberalism.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Wikipedia started as a compendium of DJ scratching techniques, obv.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE Wikipedia.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Rayndian-in-chief:

http://daryld.com/av/greenspan.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a good article about wikipedia. (btw, since i work for a major encyclopedia company, everyone here is freaking the fuck out about what wikipedia stands for as far as the future of encyclopedias go.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I don't understand how Wikipedia works. If anyone can edit, then there must be literally thousands of Internet fucktards messing everyday with entries "for fun". Anyway, a few days I did a little experiment. I took a very, very minor indie artist and made a very, very minor change on his Wikipedia entry, introducing a tiny falsehood in his discography. It stayed there for a couple of days, and then was corrected!

― San Luis Potosi, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, who cares who Wikipedia was founded by...its a cool project, with lots of excited people working hard with little compensation on a useful project.

agreed.

(i VAGUELY remember james wales from the usenet politics threads days -- i remember that he was a randian, but relatively sane, polite, and respectful of others' opinions [NEITHER quality existing in large quantities among Objectivists].)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm assuming you somehow contracted 'Ayn Rand' (THE Objectivist 'philosopher') into 'Raynd' and then added a suffix onto that.

I contracted Ayn Rand once. The doctor gave me antibiotics and told me to read Chomsky. ba-dum-kssh!

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 16 June 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to think it was established by a group of randy Annes.

― cheeses haitch christ (haitch), Thursday, 16 June 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A.

if people keep linking ilx threads to wikipedia i might stop posting here, which would be a tragedy

― Amazing Rayndian, Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

did we ever clear this up

― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 December 2009 01:25 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Wikipedia editors revolt, vote “no confidence” in newest board member

The voting, which has no legally binding effect on the Wikimedia Foundation, is now underway. As of press time, 187 editors had voted in favor of this proposition: "In the best interests of the Wikimedia Foundation, Arnnon Geshuri must be removed from his appointment as a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation Board." Just 13 editors have voted against, including Wikimedia board member Guy Kawasaki.

...

The editors object to Geshuri's involvement in a high-profile "no poach" agreement between several large tech companies. In that deal, companies agreed not to "cold call" each others' workers. In 2010, the Department of Justice said the arrangement—which applied to Google, Apple, Adobe, Intuit, Intel, and Pixar, among others—violated antitrust law.
Ultimately, the companies reached a settlement with the government in which they agreed to avoid such deals in the future, but the companies did not admit guilt or pay any financial penalty. A class-action suit brought on behalf of affected employees resulted in a $415 million payout last year.

― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 00:41 (ten years ago)

In that deal, companies agreed not to "cold call" each others' workers

sounds good to me, all cold callers can fuck off and die.

― ledge, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 09:26 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5264889/Russian-trolls-planting-fake-news-Wikipedia.html

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:46 (eight years ago)

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