Re: [WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Googlethinks Wikipedia is a news source)

2009-06-21 Thread Andrew Turvey
- "Steve Bennett" wrote: > From: "Steve Bennett" > Ha, reminds me of how I got rapped over the knuckles for deleting a > talk page. I thought I was being helpful! I saw the talk page, all the > discussion looked old and no longer relevant, so I thought I'd clear > it out for them. Heh.

Re: [WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Googlethinks Wikipedia is a news source)

2009-06-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Jay Litwyn wrote: > of what I do best and made it easier to read. Then I went meticulously > through the entire talk page, adding headings where there was a change in > topic -- and tried to answer everything. Much later, perhaps in 2008, I Ha, reminds me of how I

Re: [WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Googlethinks Wikipedia is a news source)

2009-06-18 Thread AGK
Reading everybody's accounts of how they came to join Wikipedia is always an interesting experience! AGK ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wik

Re: [WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Googlethinks Wikipedia is a news source)

2009-06-18 Thread Jay Litwyn
"David Gerard" quoted news:fbad4e140906151058wc6f789dxaedcbfde40e78...@mail.gmail.com , citing > 2009/6/15 Carcharoth : > >> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and >> a really long thread results. I was reading the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and [[prio