On 4 October 2010 19:43, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Wikipedia that went from nothing to top ten site was never built
> on verifiable knowledge. It was built on what people happened to have
> in their heads. The whole citation thing outside the more
> controversial areas came later. Don't believe me? This was a featured
> article:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_James_Bulger&oldid=3191413
This is true - it took until 2005 even to get people to accept the
{[unreferenced}} tag as being a good idea.
I believe we were #20 on Alexa by the end of 2005.
Not that there's anything wrong with references. But yes, claiming
that Wikipedia was built on referenced information is simply a
factually inaccurate claim, and you should not make it.
- d.
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