Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-26 Thread M. Williamson
Ziko, you raise the subject of "illiterates"... I feel that it is blatant discrimination to assert that the only way illiterates can create sources worthy of citation on Wikipedia is either by becoming literate, or by being interviewed by a literate person. This to me indicates a value judgement, t

[Foundation-l] Oral Citations and InCite, the project to find consensus.

2012-02-26 Thread Max Klein
Recently on foundation-l, in the Oral Citations thread has been the beginning of a conversation that is far too important to be relegated to a few back-and-forth responses. Manish and I have submitted for a community fellowship to formalise the discussion around an expanded role of alternate cita

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "yo mama" joke

2012-02-26 Thread David Gerard
https://twitter.com/#!/tommorris/status/173557756882722816 - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-26 Thread Castelo
On 26-02-2012 11:34, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Dear Castelo, We are in danger to repeat ourselves. Right, friend, let's not say same things again. xD I'll only add, and not repeat, because i agree with you in what you pointed below. I just think your list require some adittional items (as my list

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-26 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear Castelo, We are in danger to repeat ourselves. :-) Short and simply, my statement: * WP is an encyclopedia, with all what that means; * the difference between primary sources and secondary sources is of vital importance (at least in the perspective of most historians). Kind regards Ziko 20