Blogcoven

Wikipedia’s great. Everyone knows that. But there are times when even I, already a huge fan, am massively impressed by it. The thing which has impressed me most recently has been the coverage of the Irish general election.

The speed at which it has been updated is amazing; I was looking at Michael McDowell’s page and it had been updated within 24 hours of his result, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it had been updated within a fraction of that time. Similarly the results of the pages for each constituency have really detailed results on 1st preference votes and which count candidates got elected.

The fact that people go to the trouble of constructing and maintaining those pages without glory or reward or even credit is amazing. I often get the urge to do things like that but I rarely follow through. I’m glad that others are less fickle.