I'm not too concerned. Their notability standards seem to be very loose, and
they have few of the trappings that we emphasize: BLP, neutrality, reliable
sourcing, brilliant prose, etc. The software is also much more focused on
social networking. Furthermore, Hudong is not free.
I also wonder
Oddly enough the Wikipedia article makes even less sense than the original
declaration.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
From: James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Green Ink Day
To: English Wikipedia
Some time ago we had the Wikback, but ever since UninvitedCompany left that's
been down in the drain. Personally I like forums better than mailing lists, but
I'm not planning to go to WR just to get a forum experience.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Tris Thomas t...@waterhay.co.uk wrote:
Sounds a lot like Simple English Wikipedia.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Friday, April 3,
Same here. This and the World Book Encyclopedia 2001 CD that I still have. I
did like taking the quizzes Encarta had on their site.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft
Indeed it will, and hopefully that wiki will have worked out the kinks we
haven't managed to fix.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
From: doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta
To: English Wikipedia
And then someone will come up with a better way of delivering
information than a wiki...
Scientia Potentia est wrote:
Indeed it will, and hopefully that wiki will have worked out the kinks we
haven't managed to fix.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
From: doc
quizzes. I think a 1/5 is bad, right?
X!
On Mar 30, 2009, at 6:36 PM [Mar 30, 2009 ], Scientia Potentia est
wrote:
Same here. This and the World Book Encyclopedia 2001 CD that I
still have. I did like taking the quizzes Encarta had on their site.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 3/30/09
I just delete the threads I'm not interested in.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to ignore wikien-l.
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 9:51 PM
Durova, you forgot the cardinal rule of Wikipedia, which is that any semblance
of fun is strictly forbidden, on order of the cabal. I mean, seriously, why
would we edit it for FUN?
bibliomaniac15
--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Durova
Carcharoth: In fact we do have quite a few mailing list admins around. These
include: Pierre Abbat, Brion VIBBER, Robert Merkel, Manning Bartlett, Vicki
Rosenzweig, Bryan Derksen, Taw, AxelBoldt, The Cunctator, Magnus Manske, Tim
Starling, and several others I've neglected to mention. As far as
Probably too lazy to deal with all the GFDL stuff we keep hounding them about.
:)
bibliomaniac15
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions
To: English Wikipedia
Editing under the influence?
bibliomaniac15
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Journal of Biblical Literature is also requiring a
Wikipedia entry
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The Wikiproject about it is quite new. The way I see it, topic outlines are
more of a topical glossary that lack the subcategorizing that a regular
category would have. They could be of some use.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Matthew Brown mor...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Matthew Brown
Sometimes even widespread support is too much to ask.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcing Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia
To: English Wikipedia
Read the blogpost more carefully.
--- On Thu, 1/15/09, brewhaha%40edmc.net brewh...@edmc.net wrote:
From: brewhaha%40edmc.net brewh...@edmc.net
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Journal of Biblical Literature is also requiring
aWikipedia entry
To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Thursday, January 15,
Agreed. This is an absolute travesty.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 8:17 PM
If
: Monday, December 29, 2008, 6:36 AM
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Scientia Potentia est
bibliomaniac...@yahoo.com wrote:
In the end, BLP is not one of our five pillars. The fact that we are an
encyclopedia is.
bibliomaniac15
And like anything on Wikipedia, subject to change. Who says we
can't
In the end, BLP is not one of our five pillars. The fact that we are an
encyclopedia is.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Sun, 12/28/08, Jon scr...@datascreamer.com wrote:
From: Jon scr...@datascreamer.com
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
No mention about our Reference Desk? Back when the likes of Clio the Muse
roamed the place, it was probably the best place to ask any history question.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Tue, 12/23/08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Subject: [WikiEN-l] The WSJ
We need more of these things.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Tue, 12/16/08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Scientists told publish in Wikipedia or else
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 2:24
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