On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson < oskarsigvards...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > >> And I would like to thank the Phoenicians for inventing the alphabet. > >> > >> W.J. the Current. > > > > > > I'd like to thank Necessity and her baby-daddy for inventing inventions. > > I was going to thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans, but this is getting silly. Getting silly? It got silly several messages ago. There's a fundamental difference between the contributions to Wikipedia of Larry Sanger, and those of Ted Nelson (or Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Edison, Tesla, etc). I'll leave in Tim Berners-Lee since I believe he has expressed the notion that Wikipedia is similar to his vision of what the web would be, though I haven't investigated that. Wikipedia was certainly a compromise between the visions of many individuals, but that doesn't mean those individual visions and accomplishments can't be separated, and instead we must resort to a generic "made by the community". If Wales can't get 100% credit as "sole founder", then he wishes credit to be given to no one at all, but that doesn't mean we have to follow that reductio ad absurdium. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
