User:Seav/On WikiPilipinas
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This page will be my repository of all my thoughts and commentary regarding the Philippine knowledgebase WikiPilipinas. I am probably the most vocal critic of that online project and I have expounded my views on my personal blog, at the Pinoy Wikipedian community message board, on WikiPilipinas website itself, in the Manila Bulletin, and in the comments section of numerous blog posts talking about WikiPilipinas.
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It's not just me or most of the Pinoy Wikipedians who question the raison d'ĂȘtre of WikiPilipinas. Other critical-thinking bloggers have not jumped on the WikiPilipinas-is-cool bandwagon and are pretty much ambivalent about the project and have decided on a wait-and-see attitude. For a real critical look, here's one writer's cynical review of both Wikipedia and WikiPilipinas, "Feeding the frogs in the well,"[1], where he puts forth fine arguments against both online projects (Wikipedia is extremely unreliable, though useful; WikiPilipinas is just wasted effort). I agree with most of his points, though I don't share his conviction about Wikipedia (it's a glass-half-full-half-empty sort of thing).