"At three in the morning I looked at my clock and thought, 'Good god! What on earth have I been doing for four hours?!' I looked at my screen. Plot summaries of Power Rangers episodes. Damn."
A fellow Wikipedia addict
Information wants to be WRONG!
The Other Wiki, the
Wiki that most people are familiar with. Not us. This is
not Wikipedia.
As a consequence of Wikipedia's fame and scale, it's where people put knowledge when they don't know where it should go. This perception is actually at odds with the project's goals: to create a tertiary reference for information and viewpoints published elsewhere. Problem is, they've ended up with more information on
Pokemon or
Star Trek than, say, Civil Rights or the Second World War -- and that's not how they wanted it.
Here, we only care about history to the extent that it informs fiction, so we're
cool with that.
Don't just tell us the facts; tell us the memes, tell us the archetypes, tell us the catchy ideas and symbolic roles that get planted in people's heads. Got the kernel of an idea bouncing about your head? Throw it down here and see what grows. If we're lucky, our
neologism for it will catch on.
Given Wikipedia's (self-hatin') role as a central information source, you can probably gain more info on the "what" of (for example)
Star Trek from it than you can from
actually watching the show. And that's nice.
Here, you can get a glimmering of
why the show is like that.
Wikipedia can be found
right here
.
