Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository

There's no open source genealogy programmers because the young nerds that do open source dont care about genealogy.

Wikipedia is nothing more than the biggest plagiarist / content farm on the Internet. It isn't scrutinized because it has been grandfathered in.

Wikipedia is the ebaumsworld of information. Completely unreliable. Steals credit, traffic, royalties from the content creators. Policies focused on self preservation rather than serving a public good or respecting creators.

The complaint about wikipedia is that it fails to live up to its ideals. If you had ever been a wikipedia editor you wouldn't talk the way you do. Even as a domain expert it's intolerable to deal with the wikipedia amateur hour culture. It's far more rewarding to submit your articles to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Not to mention a security issue as well since most financial institutions ask for your mother's maiden name as a security question.

There's plenty of opinion of the deletion-happy (if that's the operative term) policy of the admins, especially as it pertains to notability, and I think this is a common complaint : http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/rants/wikipedia-delete.ht...

I do something that may seem like trying to fix a leaky dam with chewing gum, but every time I see an article nominated for deletion, I copy the source to a private wiki I'm running. Sometimes, the deletion nomination goes away, other times it does get deleted, but at least then, I have a copy.

But we also have to keep in mind that there are plenty of other resources on the web specifically aimed at niche resources. E.G. Wikia. I've lost count of how many comic book related articles were deleted only to show up on the DC or Marvel wikis. ( http://dc.wikia.com/ http://marvel.wikia.com/ )

Likewise, it's not unreasonable that a lot of content gets missed by the editors, since it's a big place and most editors have one or two areas that they focus on. As the editing guidelines state, when in doubt engage in dispute resolution, not edit wars. If you can make a good case for why an article should be there in the first place, be persuasive in the talk pages.

So a few pointers for people getting angry at Wikipedia:

First, ask whether the article is a good fit for the wiki. Can it go on a blog or a niche wiki (like a dedicated Wikia) instead? The Pokémon example is a bit extreme, but I think many of those pages may get deleted or merged. There's always the Pokémon Wikia : http://pokemon.wikia.com

Second, notability is a very tricky thing. Reputable sources may be even trickier. Rather than debating notability, focus on reputable sources (since that's the biggest hiccup for references). If you can link NY Times articles or BBC or some other news source, rather than just community sites, other blogs (depending on popularity) etc... you'll have a better chance of getting the article/section through and staying there.

Third, well written articles have a better chance of surviving than those that give off the 2-3 paragraph stub vibe. The more reputable citations and best content structure you can give, the better the chances an article survives (this may partly explain the Pokémon pages too). If you have trivia, try to merge it into the content body more, rather than list at the end; that feels tacked on and superfluous, if not directly supporting the main content.

Fourth, try to be a bit more empathetic to the goals of the Wiki while being objective to the subject when asserting your views (especially on controversial articles). How you word things is a big hint as to whether that content will remain or get scrubbed the next day/hour/minute.

Now, I hope can go back to discussing Wikidata and how Wikipedia and everyone else will benefit.