On 10/01/2011 15:09, David Gerard wrote
We're more than famous, we're part of the framework. How the hell did
that happen?
Do good by stealth technology. We're invisible to 17 kinds of radar. And
we flew in under the rest. Jimbo may get recognised in the street, but
who else?
Without taking a
This ten year appraisal written by Drake Bennett for Business Week
also features wiki-style collaborative editing by a small number of
invited external contributors. It's not perfect but overall I think it
does a good job.
There are some obvious errors which will be obvious to us all and may
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
There are some obvious errors which will be obvious to us all and may
mislead readers less familiar with the inner politics. For instance
the response to the Siegenthaler affair includes Jimmy Wales' decision
to stop
On 10 January 2011 14:46, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we've finally broken the barrier and acquired an
exulted status hitherto shared only by such institutions as the BBC
and the NHS.
I saw an ad in Kings Cross tube station headlining something as The
Wikipedia of ...
On Monday, January 10, 2011, Tony Sidaway wrote:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_03/b4211057979684.htm
I'm curious about Wales calling Wikipedia a temple of the mind; that's some
high-falutin verbiage! The earliest instance I can find is this Forbes article:
You're right, Gwern. It is not possible at present to create an
article without registering and logging in. My mistake, thanks for the
correction.
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It was a temporary experiment that was transparently neither
temporary nor an experiment. I think I got chewed out for pointing
that out at the time. I sometimes wonder what Wikipedia could have
become if it truly stayed experimental, instead of aspiring to the
lesser goal of a better Encarta.
