Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-31 Thread Nathan
Gah, yet another use of the thread I started to misrepresent Wikimedia and
the fundraising drive.
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-31 Thread Nathan
I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful
columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such
piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written
something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and
misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in
any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly,
plugged in to the Web and technology.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-31 Thread Christiano Moreschi

Lol, they put MERKEY into their piece? Hilarious. Way to kill your credibility, 
guys. They have some valid points but Merkey? heh.

CM




 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:50:50 -0500
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 I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful
 columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such
 piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written
 something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and
 misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in
 any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly,
 plugged in to the Web and technology.
 
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-31 Thread Gwern Branwen
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 Lol, they put MERKEY into their piece? Hilarious. Way to kill your 
 credibility, guys. They have some valid points but Merkey? heh.

 CM

They did include a caveat: (Keep in mind that Merkey has a reputation
of his own as well. Jimmy Wales denies any wrongdoing in all of these
supposed incidents.)

The linked site, http://scofacts.org/merkey.html, is hardly flattering
to Merkey.

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gwern

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-31 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/31 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com:

 I still find it really surprising that people who purport to write useful
 columns and articles, even if its blogging and not mainstream news, do such
 piss poor research. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to have written
 something that demonstrates such a high level of ignorance and
 misunderstanding - particularly since Wikipedia and Wikimedia are not, in
 any sense, minor elements of the Web world and ArsTechnica is, supposedly,
 plugged in to the Web and technology.


Ad-banner trolling.

The tech press in general are whores, cheap diseased ones. Previously
whores to print advertisers, now whores to ad-banner trolling. So
unsubstantiable bullshit is the order of the day, because IT GETS THE
CLICKS.

It's so much nicer dealing with the mainstream press - at least they
can spell journalism.


- d.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism

2008-12-30 Thread Jon
Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
 This

 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081230-wikipedias-new-plea-for-donations-stirs-skepticism.html

 is now showing up on Digg. Anyone on damage control?

 Michel
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Damage?

Jon

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