It is possible that Wikipedia is inaccurate. -----Original Message----- From: agora-discussion <agora-discussion-boun...@agoranomic.org> On Behalf Of Kerim Aydin Sent: 04 February 2019 23:22 To: Agora Nomic discussions (DF) <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration
I've never looked up Wikipedia on Wikipedia, but it started 2001 (according to Wikipedia). Agora was 1993 (Rule 1727), so definitely older. On 2/4/2019 3:12 PM, David Seeber wrote: > That sounds like the beginning of a thesis. But anyway. > > In my opinion it’s Wikipedia mentioning them because they are still around. > The easiest thing to do would be > a. check the modification records from Wikipedia (I assume that's > possible because it's all meant to be transparent, right?) and see when they > were first mentioned > b. Check when Wikipedia itself was founded. It's possible that Agora > and BlogNomic are older than Wikipedia (anybody?) > > -----Original Message----- > From: agora-discussion <agora-discussion-boun...@agoranomic.org> On > Behalf Of ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk > Sent: 04 February 2019 23:09 > To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org > Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration > > On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:05 +0000, David Seeber wrote: >> Actually it was a good friend of mine who is a sort of board game >> nerd. He has a little nomic which he plays with a few friends and >> invited me to join in. Whilst checking out what nomics actually are, >> I found the Wikipedia page, which talks about Agora being the biggest >> nomic still running. And I thought, Hey... Why not? > > Theory: the fact that Agora and BlogNomic are by far the longest- > lasting nomics is connected to the fact that they're the only ones > referenced from Wikipedia. (That said, the causality may be reversed, > i.e. they may have been referenced from Wikipedia due to being long- > lived rather than vice versa.) > > -- > ais523 >
