On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/17 :
>
>> Wikipedia is like moving into a city where all the inhabitants are helping
>> to build all of the buildings, and you have some organized and disorganized
>> crime elements like in any city.
>> Knol is like living on the vast
Anything I can do to help, please just let me know.
Giano.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/4/16 Nathan :
>
> > I had a brief flip through the history and didn't see anything like that.
> > Looks like there are a few editors who keep a close eye on the page, so
> it
>
In a message dated 4/17/2009 12:24:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dger...@gmail.com writes:
> So Citizendium is Milton Keynes?>>
Hmmm Citizendium.. I'm thinking somewhere between self-appointed snobs like
the Blue Book or Social Register crowd (now since defunct evidently), or
else a University
2009/4/17 :
> Wikipedia is like moving into a city where all the inhabitants are helping
> to build all of the buildings, and you have some organized and disorganized
> crime elements like in any city.
> Knol is like living on the vast prairies, where you rarely encounter your
> neighbors, but yo
It's is funny that you mentioned the Wild West (etc), as I was just
thinking yesterday of a new way to describe the difference between Wikipedia
and
Knol.
Wikipedia is like moving into a city where all the inhabitants are helping
to build all of the buildings, and you have some organized and d
My grandmother's favorite joke was about the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Riding
through the wilderness they got surrounded by a hostile indigenous tribe.
The Lone Ranger turned to his companion. "We're really in trouble."
Tonto replied, "We?"
There's a useful feature on the left edge of the page cal
In a message dated 4/17/2009 11:35:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com writes:
> Sanger's outlook could be characterized as a belief that the way to
> achieve
> quality is to pursue it. Wikipedia has gotten where it is by allowing
> quality to overrun it.>>
Sanger's claim of cofoundership is implicitly a claim of credit for
Wikipedia's success. The idea of applying a wiki editing environment
outside the sphere of software development was a radical one and a powerful
one, but as anyone who has worked on other wikis knows that concept alone is
no guara
Durova wrote:
> In the long run--ten and thirty years from now--the merit of Sanger's claim
> to coufoundership of Wikipedia is likely to be measured by the success of
> Citizendium.
>
A bit like Einstein, then: his claim to have founded quantum theory
(about which he was a skeptic, and in fact
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/17 Charles Matthews :
>
>
>> Basically we should (if anything) ask someone to write a polite letter
>> to the editor of the Spectator, pointing out a few things:
>>
>
>
> /me hands job to Charles, to write as a long-term editor and administrator
>
Ooops, how
In the long run--ten and thirty years from now--the merit of Sanger's claim
to coufoundership of Wikipedia is likely to be measured by the success of
Citizendium.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ken Arromdee wrote:
> >>> He obviously is cla
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:03 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>
> Our problem comes from people who can't work well with *lots* of
> others - but that's hardly restricted to experts.
Adjusting to Wikipedia's peculiar methodology is another aspect of it
(and one that feeds into collaboration issues). The g
2009/4/17 Charles Matthews :
> Basically we should (if anything) ask someone to write a polite letter
> to the editor of the Spectator, pointing out a few things:
/me hands job to Charles, to write as a long-term editor and administrator
- d.
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Wi
Oldak Quill wrote:
> We should determine if that Spectator article contains untruths
> and, if it does, we should ensure that a retraction is issued.
>
Basically we should (if anything) ask someone to write a polite letter
to the editor of the Spectator, pointing out a few things:
Sir,
- it
Marc Riddell wrote:
>> Marc Riddell wrote:
>>
>>> on 4/16/09 3:44 PM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
Academics learning how to massively collaborate effectively.
>>> We have been collaborating very effectively for a very long time. The
>>> results are th
2009/4/17 Oldak Quill :
> I'm not sure why we're discussing legal options. Even if there were
> legal avenues open to us, it would be silly to pursue them.
I endorse this comment entirely. It seems a little surreal to read
some of the discussion in this thread, which whilst no doubt
interesting f
I was just indicating that video is a bit boring in [[professor kitzel]],
because only the professor is animated, and that is a necessity in distant
history--a lot of stills on paintings while a historian reads. They *should*
be remixed with classical music on one side while the historian reads
wrote a null message in this thread:
news:ftbaaynz78c9agmq5quyaxe124vaj_fire...@mail.gmail.com
I nominate [[professor kitzel]]. I saw them all, and I would swear they are
longer than five minutes. They say time flies when you're having fun. It's a
total mystery. Maybe my ten year old brain exp
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