-Original Message-
From: Daniel R. Tobias
To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 6:56 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales
and Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the World Wide Web; the ARPAnet
pioneers for creating the network on which the Web operate
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:04:20 -0700, Delirium wrote:
> I think you might also be aiming at the wrong audience to some extent.
> You seem to accept the media-narrative "founder myth" of Wikipedia as
> this thing that sprang whole cloth out of nothingness due to the
> ingenuity of Jimmy Wales; sav
Delirium wrote:
> Larry Sanger wrote:
>
>> I can recognize when I am no longer welcome. I didn't really believe I ever
>> was welcome to begin with, but I was willing to try. I've always been
>> optimistic.
>>
>> I assume that, since the self-appointed silencers among you are apparently
>> ope
-Original Message-
From: Carcharoth
To: English Wikipedia
Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 3:13 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, wrote:
> There's a way to tell the order in which people joined Wikipedia?
> What is it?
Possibly [[Speci
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, wrote:
> There's a way to tell the order in which people joined Wikipedia?
> What is it?
Possibly [[Special:Preferences]], and your user ID.
My user ID is between 165,000 and 166,000.
And I created my account on 8 January 2005.
Carcharoth
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-Original Message-
From: Sean Barrett
To: English Wikipedia
Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 1:59 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales
Ian Woollard arranged electrons to indicate (back on 04/13/2009 10:09
AM) that:
> Probably March 2001 would be the earliest slashdotting:
>
> h
Ian Woollard arranged electrons to indicate (back on 04/13/2009 10:09
AM) that:
> Probably March 2001 would be the earliest slashdotting:
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244
Shortly after reading that Slashdot article I became Wikipedia user #30.
--
Sean Barrett | It'
Probably March 2001 would be the earliest slashdotting:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244
And right at the end it says:
Hector, who started the 'gnupedia' project recently wrote this on his
mailing list:
"Now, the FSF's plans are give all the support to the Nupedia project.
So
>
> What would *really* interest me, and what I consider
> to be the seminal moment - even the foundational moment -
> in creating the wikipedia we all know; is when somebody
> made the conceptual breakthrough to the vision of
> wikipedia as something sui generis, and freestanding.
>
> I am bettin
> This is exactly what matters. From what I can tell Sanger wrote much of
> Wikipedia's initialy policy - policy that lives on today in various
> edited
> forms. Not only was he key in coming up with the more formal guidelines
> for
> Nupedia, he personally wrote many of the informal guidelines tha
Sheldon Rampton wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
>
>> Let's be clear that, especially after the failure of Nupedia to take
>> off,
>> Wikipedia's success was a surprise both to Sanger and Wales. Neither
>> of them
>> expected that this would happen and can therefore not take full or
>> too much
>>
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