Hello,
Today I read on a WMDE driven website:
"»Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der das gesamte Wissen der
Menschheit jedem frei zugänglich ist. Das ist unser Ziel.«
Jimmy Wales"
(Imagine a world in which the entire knowledge of mankind is freely
accessible to everyone. That is our goal.)
I
I'm afraid it sounds a bit OT, but I'm serious, really.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I read on a WMDE driven website:
>
> "»Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der das gesamte Wissen der
> Menschheit jedem frei zugänglich ist. Das ist unser Ziel.«
> Jim
> And I think that there is a huge difference between "the sum of
> all..." and "all...". By the way, the traditional encyclopedias
> described themselves by "the sum of all..."
Can you explain this perceived difference? Is the whole more than the
sum of its parts, so that the German claim is too
I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all
human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic".
Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded.
2011/9/16 Ziko van Dijk
> Hello,
>
> Today I read on a WMDE driven website:
>
> "»Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in
Don't worry emijrp, I guess no German may hit your idea - MySpace
things may be unproblematic omitted in convention: For knowing mere
facts, they don't use this word - it's Kennen or Kenntnis. Not Wissen.
I'd like to add, while German is not my mother tongue, in the German
language "Wissen" is not
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrp wrote:
> I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all
> human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic".
>
> Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded.
When you look back to when that quote was issued (at least 2004
Hi;
Perhaps, you may want to help me compiling information about this topic and
improving the estimate.[1]
There is a false sensation about Wikipedia being almost complete. In the
other hand, projects like WikiSource are in their infance, for example,
Internet Archive hosts about 3 million public
On 09/16/11 12:38 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrp wrote:
>> I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all
>> human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic".
>>
>> Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded.
> When you look
On 17 Sep 2011, at 09:41, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> On 09/16/11 12:38 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrp wrote:
>>> I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all
>>> human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic".
>>>
>>> Not ALL, ALL,
