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During the fund raising for the movie/vault achieving project [[Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa?]] film director [[Alex Winter]] divulged his enjoyment of Zappa Wiki Jawaka...: ''"This isn't my own research — all these great quotes from Nando are from off the extremely robust Zappa Wiki Jawaka, which I thoroughly enjoy."'' <ref>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexwinter/frank-zappa/posts/1520125</ref> | During the fund raising for the movie/vault achieving project [[Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa?]] film director [[Alex Winter]] divulged his enjoyment of Zappa Wiki Jawaka...: ''"This isn't my own research — all these great quotes from Nando are from off the extremely robust Zappa Wiki Jawaka, which I thoroughly enjoy."'' <ref>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexwinter/frank-zappa/posts/1520125</ref> | ||
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| + | Alas such praise is not universal. The editors at Wikipedia decided that this wiki was of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_Zappa/Archive_3#External_link_to_Wiki_Jawaka limited value] due to the lack of a robust editorial policy and the limited number of editors. A trend that continues as a single editor can daily spam so many articles that it becomes an onerous task for other editors to work through them all correcting all the spelling/typo mistakes, factual inaccuracies, or discuss whether tabloid sensationalism deserves equal weighting as verifiable content. etc. All of which devalues the work as a whole. | ||
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Revision as of 04:33, 20 November 2020
Zappa Wiki Jawaka is a Wiki about Frank Zappa. It was established in 2005.
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During the fund raising for the movie/vault achieving project Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa? film director Alex Winter divulged his enjoyment of Zappa Wiki Jawaka...: "This isn't my own research — all these great quotes from Nando are from off the extremely robust Zappa Wiki Jawaka, which I thoroughly enjoy." [1]
Alas such praise is not universal. The editors at Wikipedia decided that this wiki was of limited value due to the lack of a robust editorial policy and the limited number of editors. A trend that continues as a single editor can daily spam so many articles that it becomes an onerous task for other editors to work through them all correcting all the spelling/typo mistakes, factual inaccuracies, or discuss whether tabloid sensationalism deserves equal weighting as verifiable content. etc. All of which devalues the work as a whole.
