On: Steve Yegge is a "non-notable programmer"

[btmorex]

As far as I can tell, he isn't notable outside of blogging (I had no idea who he was either). I can understand why his wikipedia page got deleted.

On the other hand, I have no problem with wikipedia including pages on famous bloggers who happen to be programmers. I think wikipedia's biggest strength is having something on just about everything. If I googled "Steve Yegge", it would be nice to have a wikipedia page there with a short blurb on why people know him (blogging about programming presumably).

[tptacek → btmorex]

Wikipedia thinks it's an encyclopedia, not a search-engine aid or a "who's who"-style directory.

[philwelch → tptacek]

Wikipedia thinks it's an encyclopedia, but fairly often, I use it as a Doctor Who episode guide or something.

[code_duck → tptacek]

Wikipedia is so wrong about that.

The whole notion of an encyclopedia is outdated, anyway. The whole internet is the knowledge base, Google is the index.