Wikipedia Forever: 2015 (Fictional Story)

The year is 2015. The sum of human knowledge has been made clear. Sarah Palin is President of the United States. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is the brain for everyone's life. People, who used to rely on 10% of their brains to live their lives. The site has become the new Bing, posting all the information in people's lives. The human imagination, a far distant galaxy. The Einsteins no longer stand out, as all have become one. Arbitration Committee has collapsed, with trolls running the community. Who knows what could break?

Articles, expanded, Drama, high. What kind of civilization have we become? The technical people in Tokyo reply on the Japanese Wikipedia to build items that were so crucial for daily life. The Great Wall of China will become just like the Lighthouse at Alexandria, a part of old history. Religion, once a spectacle in our lives, is no more than knowledge than people could learn every day of our lives. The mesmerizing world of the Periodic Table or the ability to recite numbers up to a Googleplex are nothing amazing. Jimbo Wales has assumed the position of God, Sarah Palin means nothing.

What do we have to show in 2015? What did we do in 2009 that screwed us over? People who are eight have the knowledge of ten supercomputers. Teachers lose their jobs because there is nothing to teach. Everyone knows everything. The country is one. Nuclear bombs are nothing to construct anymore. We've found ways to bomb other worlds, make beer every five minutes, turn books into a foreign language. Each person in and of themselves know how to become the President of the United States and have the knowledge to lead a military coup de 'etat. Have we gone robotic?

The people of 2001 are gone. 2012 came and went. The people of 2015 are here now. We are Wikipedia, and we've become forever. We are the sum of human knowledge, it only took us 14 years to ever do it.
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Yes, this story is fictional, and I hope this never occurs. Unfortunately if you're someone who sees the wrong end of technology, this could be a foreseeable future. I wrote this completely of fiction and only used names that would not insult the private public. I encourage you to comment, but again, none of this will probably ever occur.

Your history.
Your editor.
Mitchazenia/Roadgeek_Adam

Thanksgiving is upon us

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


~IShadowed

WIKTIONARY FOREVER

At the time when Firefox had "only" 6% market penetration, the marketing people of companies were asked the question: "Can you afford to ignore 6% of your target audience ? If not, tell your techies to conform to standards ! "


Wiktionary is in traffic bigger then the Dutch Wikipedia. It does not have the banners for the fund raiser. It should if only to achieve our goal and not see these banners for another year.

Seriously though, the fund raiser is not about Wikipedia, it is about achieving our goal to bring the sum of all knowledge to the people of this world and Wiktionary helps us achieve that.
Thanks,
      GerardM

COMMONS FOREVER

At the time when Firefox had "only" 6% market penetration, the marketing people of companies were asked the question: "Can you afford to ignore 6% of your target audience ? If not, tell your techies to conform to standards ! "


Commons is in traffic bigger then the Portuguese Wikipedia. It does not have the banners for the fund raiser. It should if only to achieve our goal and not see these banners for another year.

Seriously though, the fund raiser is not about Wikipedia, it is about achieving our goal to bring the sum of all knowledge to the people of this world and Commons helps us achieve that.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Unlisted Skype Emoticons

Here are some emoticon commands that do not appear in the Skype emoticon directory. Enjoy

• (mooning)
  
• (finger)
• (rofl)
• (headbang)
• (smoking)
• (poolparty)
• (drunk)
• (toivo)
• (myspace)
• (heidy)
• (rock)
• (bandit)
• (flag:us)
  
• (fubar)
  

~IShadowed

Best Wikivoice induced joke ever.

This is the best phrased "that's what she said" wikijoke ever. Yes that's right Wikivoices can now "induce" jokes. It can induce a lot of things... (that's what she said).

A real measure of popularity

Today it was revealed that Wikipedia editor Durova is almost as famous as Barack Obama. According to Wikipedia:Database_reports/Pages_with_the_most_revisions, Barack Obama has 18,522 edits, making it the 104th most edited page on the English Wikipedia. User talk:Durova follows closely behind at 14,324 revisions, ranking it at number 163 on the aforementioned list. Durova's talk page is the fourth most edited user talk page on enwiki, behind only Jimbo, SandyGeorgia, Dr. Blofeld, and of course Raul654.

This means that Durova is roughly 77.33% as popular as Barack Obama. It's amazing what Wikipedia will do.