2023-12-13

Introducing Justapedia?

PXL_20231203_144123066 Well, that's what Quillette says. I suppose they hope to do better than the failed Conservapedia. They have five fundamental principles and core content policies but I didn't even bother skim them1, because without editors, they're doomed. As a quick test, 500 changes in JP gets you back 3 or 4 days. 500 changes on Wiki gets you back... 4 minutes.

If I look at their current "Selected Contents" I find Outline of the American Civil War, Underwater diving, Poetry, Polar regions of Earth, Machine learning, Mormons, Philosophy and Adoption. Only one of those has had any updates since their import from Wiki, and that is a trivial update of a date in a flagging. That's powerfully unimpressive.

I haven't quite worked out when the import was done, but it looks to be around November 2022. Quillette gives the impression that JP is recent.

Why would you even bother doing this? Q talks about "Recent Wikipedia Controversies" but it is rather telling that issue number one for them is where the funding went, not anything to do with content. Next up is Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland, which was a thing but not that exciting (I didn't follow it). They then come to what I think is rather closer to their hearts, Race and intelligence and how it is controlled on Wiki. They may have a point; I would whinge about a variety of other articles and topics, if I felt like it. But... it all seems too thin to sustain what they want.

Notes

1. Well that sounded nice and dismissive, which is what I intended, but then I decided on a quick skim. The core content policy doesn't seem to significantly differ from what they imported; and the 5 pillars also seem eerily similar to Wiki's version.

Refs

* Grasping at straw - Light Blue Touchpaper on plod and kiddy pron.

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4 comments:

  1. Tom25/12/2023, 14:33

    Happy Christmas

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  2. William M. Connolley27/12/2023, 17:49

    And a belated Happy Christmas to you too, my sole remaining reader :-). I shall put up a proper Christmas post in a bit.

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  3. Tom28/12/2023, 14:41

    Doubt if I'm the last one arriving here. But thanks...

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  4. justapedia25/10/2024, 18:27

    Wow - well, this post isn't very encouraging. It appears you're not aware of how Wikipedia began. They had -0- articles, and very few editors. This is our first year to have gone public and we began with over 6.5 million articles and now have around 30 active editors with over 700 registered users, and there have been numerous updates. Our front page averages over 250k views/month, and we're nearing the million mark over a 4 month span. You might also like to know that we ARE GROWING in numbers, have purchased property with a small data center from Comcast, which includes fiberoptic feeds and a 275' microwave tower situated in a tri-state area. So how is your site fairing? Just wondering...perhaps there's something we can do to help?

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