Ohhh, Wackypedia. You are so conflicted. On one hand, you are an amazing resource for the entire world the likes of which humanity has never known. You allow everyone to contribute, and work is judged largely on merit. You hold your own in accuracy of content, on average, with many other older dead-tree massive knowledge sources.
On the other, you vaguely resemble a sometimes bizarre totalitarian empire run by slightly OCD nerds and rules-lawyers. The community can be harsh, and sometimes arbitrary, like any community online. You are of the Internet, by the Internet, and for the Internet, but you live by an odd set of rules, grounded in the methodology of traditional Encyclopedias that seems increasingly anchored to the past. Coverage level and depth can fluctuate widely across genres of articles (sometimes requiring a PhD, and sometimes all you get is a Stub), quality is inconsistent, and current events are often subject to the bile of the Internet. And, there is a real problem of the echo chamber, and more insidious "professional" Wikipedia "management" services.
I love you, warts and all.
You're not perfect, like the humans that make you. But you're pretty awesome.
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