Wikipedia block: third time's a charm

Welp, now I'm blocked for a week because I tried to improve Wikipedia's craptacular disambiguation navigation system, which is inconsistent, contradictory, and hypocritical. Typical.

The problem with Wikipedia is it's too easily controlled by bias (what it dubs "consensus"). A group of people may not agree with one thing one week, but the next week (month, or year), consensus may change. It's like democracy on crack (which itself is just the "appeal to majority" fallacy)--and even worse when combined with capitalism where it then also becomes an "appeal to money" fallacy (which is just another kind of majority). Ridiculous.

I really don't know why I even bother trying to improve things--no one seems to want improvement. Everything I've come across I try to improve, but end up meeting heavy resistance. What's the point?

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Guernica
[這個好]
You should make your own wikipedia-ish site :p
Eep²
Heya, Geishinica (Japanese "this is good" :P) I thought about it for my RenderWare site but then I started using the Active Worlds Wikia, which didn't take off since no one else was interested (including me since I hadn't been active in AW/RW for a while). This was around the time I was heavily into the Second Life wikis, of which (as you know), I was also eventually banned from. I like the concept of wikis but not all the egos that come with it--then it just becomes politics, sociology, and psychology. I'll just have to be more subversive, I guess...
SW Chris
This is why you shouldn't believe anything on Wikipedia about religion or politics, or about anything that's happened within the last 50 years.
Eep²
Heh, well, with Wikipedia, you have to take everything on it with a grain of salt--including that article on the idiom... ;)

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