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.
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