Everybody wants some

Posted on By Wil

If you haven’t wasted half a day at the Wikipedia, you haven’t wasted half a day.
It’s a cool idea: make a HUGE online encyclopedia, sort of like E2, and K5.
I really like this idea of letting anyone contribute or modify information about, well, anything. It’ll be interesting to see if the goddamn trolls can get past what my friend Eric calls “the basic human desire to destroy” and let this project flourish.
I won’t have time to update again until the end of the weekend, so I here’s wishing everyone a good one. Just remember to keep your hands and arms inside the mixer at all times.
I walk the thinnest line.

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Comments (62)

  1. How irritating that I have happened to look at this at 16:38 BST, but cannot bring myself to make an empty comment merely to be first comment on a given item.
    Er.
    Damn.
    That aside, Wiki’s shouldn’t work, but they do. I don’t understand it.

  3. Suddenly the balancing act is no longer working. Half a day wasted and suddenly one tries not to fall from the thin line.

  9. Thanks for posting this, Wil. I just popped over to give it a glance and will be looking at it more closely later (and gee, 7 people have posted here since I went to look).
    I guess this encyclopedia will be an example of “50,000 monkeys at 50,000 typewriters can’t be wrong.”

  14. very nice Dead Milkman reference. the internet is, unarguably a lot like a trailer park. Check out that “I Tripped Over the Ottaman” song. I sing it in my head all the time. I’ve been looking for your 1992 playmates action figure everywhere so I can visualize you at work on wilwheaton.net, except younger and with a burgundy uniform on. i keep finding Frake’s and Marina Sirtis’. She was really good in Death Wish 3.

  15. what would make this really cool is if they renamed it from Wikipedia to ….BAM BAM BAM
    “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” – THEN I’d probably read it more…LOL

  18. How ’bout I make a deal with ya? I’ll waste half a day on that site when I finally get the net at home in a couple weeks. Has everybody missed me? I know ya have.
    Laterz.
    Love,
    ayngil

  21. WIL,WIL,WILL! When will we recieve the promise of the vegas trip. and all the other shallow promises that you made.
    The disturbed(Pissed OFF)fans in Seattle

  23. I am bored with Wil’s site… is that clear?
    wiki is ok.. i went there and updated the water polo entry.. pretty sweet site..

  24. You know I am not one to just surf the internet…I just don’t have the time to sift through it for hours, so I love it when you find these cool sites and post them in the blog.
    More often then not, I was not aware that these sites existed and I find out they are really worthwhile.
    ThankYou

  28. I guarantee you that he did not just discover the DM.
    I just think Anne needs to take the bowl of jellybeans (or whatever sugary items he’s eating) and hide it.

  29. Wil,
    You have a great weekend to. I look foreward to hearing some of the stories about Vega$ and the Alaskan Trek. I’ll go check out the site you posted in the mean time. I’ll try to deal with real life while I wait till you post again. Real life has gotten busy and it’s like that.
    Best to you and your family Wil,
    Until your next post……
    Matt……

  30. People believe that I walk a thin line, but that’s because they like spreading rumors about my sexual orientation. Remember Wil, you aren’t gay… no matter how close to the line you are.

  32. Well, I checked out some things in which I have expertise, and I found no errors of fact. For something online, that’s quite rare…

  33. That is a tasty site, Wil. I’ve been reading your blog for some time now, and haven’t left a comment before, but damn, I’ve been inspired by your recent Dead Milkmen blitz. Hilario!
    ‘Maybe there’ll be a party at the beach, we’ll bitch about life and we’ll chug-a-lug bleach..’

  34. Damn you, Wheaton, for exposing me to Wiki. It’s snpp.com for the Known Universe.
    Seriously, I found one person which I could submit a short bio for immediately. Thanks for the link.

  35. Can’t wait to hear (well…read) what you have to say (type) about how life has been treating you…… Well, hope nothing to drastic has happened and you are still able to feed all of us posters some useful yet interesting information.
    Whatever that line is, use it for inspiration or apreciation for what you -do- have.
    Until your next post…..

  37. I think this is a good website, since Im from england I hope I can get to chat to wil if he reads this e-mail, the last time I saw him was in the st-tng.
    Keep this website going.
    Anthony.

  38. You dleted my comment?!!? I said before that Survivor was on tonight. That WAS a comment on the post that you made and one that I felt I had a right to make.

  40. I am beginning the process of wasting all my damn time at Wiki. I took the liberty of adding “Tom Tomorrow” and “This Mordern World” entries. “Wil Wheaton” was already there! Whatta man!

  41. In a closed universe parallel lines always meet.
    In a flat universe parallel lines never meet.
    In an open universe parallel lines tend to converge.

  42. Thanks Wil, for the site. My nephew will love it, he may even use it for school! Yeah right!
    But thanks…and I too, hope trolls don’t ruin it.
    🙂

  43. I think it means something that when I read this entry, there were exactly 42 comments already on it.
    There is definitely something intriguing about the ease of editing at Wikipedia…But I have hung out off and on at H2G2 for a few years, becoming a researcher in 2000, and if you haven’t been….I highly recommend it.
    You can follow Dennis’s link above.
    But don’t panic, the much shorter, easier to remember, infinitely more catchy address, from before the BBC picked it up, still works. http://www.h2g2.com

  44. Ah ha! Now I get it! You are like me and waste away half of the day at interesting websites, then wonder why nothing got done at the end of the day. 🙂

  46. Safety vs. Openness
    Truth vs. Belief
    Order vs. Entropy
    Think about it, dudes and dudettes. See it here. See it in your telescope, see it at church.
    Later.

  47. I notice that the 2 articles I looked at in the wikipedia were based on original articles published in 1897 and 1911.
    I should look up relativity now, and see if it’s in there.

  49. Pudding said:
    – “Dude! I saw you yesterday in Toy Soldiers, with the dutch subtitles. You got shot, man! ”
    dude toy soldiers was a really bad movie! why would u watch it with dutch subtitles?

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