16th May 2010, 9:04 PM
Sacred Jellybean Wrote:How can y'all be complaining about Wikipedia's new layout and not google's redesign? It happened a week or two ago and I'm still not used to it. Argh, it's just so ugly. They needed to keep the simplistic design they had. Less is more.
If you're referring to that iGoogle nonsense, you can switch back to the old view. Should be a link at the top right that says "Classic Home".
A Black Falcon Wrote:Definitely, Wikipedia is awesome. Not always accurate, but awesome.
Let me stop you right there.
Popular opinion would have you believe as such, but Wikipedia is actually quite accurate, more so than any dusty encyclopedia you could find on a library shelf (and certainly more up-to-date). The whole theory that since everyone can edit it, that means the jackasses can too. Yes, they can. And they can spend an hour editing an entire article and laughing about it, but I guarantee it'll be noticed and fixed within minutes, if not seconds. Not only does WP have tons of staff and volunteers monitoring the pages, they have bots looking for edits and reverting them automatically if they're too drastic. For every vandal who's out to ruin the website, unsuccessfully, there are also experts and truly knowledgeably people with data and facts that they can source to better expand the mass of information that is constantly evolving and free. I know I'm guilty several times a week of thinking of or hearing about something obscure, and i can instantly log on to Wikipedia and learn anything I could want to know about it (in case your curious, todays was Lake Agassiz)
Wikipedia is far, far more accurate than most people give it credit for, and it bugs me when people say it's unreliable.
As for the search bar. It's a wonderful and amazing service that's given to us for free, encompassing more knowledge than any human could ever hope to learn. I think you can learn to move your mouse to the top right instead of the middle left. Count your blessings if that's the most pressing matter on your mind.
The Earthworker Race has ended. Everybody wins.