On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I provided both versions of the XML if you want to muck around with > that. I don't think there's much historical value in the control > characters.
Probably not. I was reminded again today that XML 1.1 (for a reason I'm still not quite sure of) never really gained all that widespread of support. > Speaking of historical value, I found the argument between Lars > Aronsson and Larry Sanger, which caused Lars to quit and found > susning.nu. It happened on May 21. > > Lars had just spent several days writing dictionary-like articles, and > he wrote [[Short words]] to organise the effort. At 12:48, Larry > complained about this on [[LA2]], and at 12:53, he created [[Wikipedia > is not a dictionary]], which was clearly an attack on what Lars was > doing. At 12:54, Lars announced that he was leaving, as a comment on > [[Wikipedia is not a dictionary]]. There were several responses. > > On July 24, Larry erased all the comments from [[Wikipedia is not a > dictionary]], and on July 28, he rewrote the original text, toning > down the language. Before I found this backup, the earliest version we > had of this policy page was from August 17. Interesting. I came to accept the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" guideline/policy pretty soon after reading that page - and much to my dismay I find it to be fairly widely ignored when it comes to etymology, usage, and profanity. I'm interested in seeing what the original and/or newly rewritten language had to say about it. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
