> Jon Louis Mann wrote:
> > I don't understand turning the Alliance for Progress
> Encyclopedia into a wiki format or what's a Brin Wiki
> > but I am all for doing anything to block trolls from
> removing any of Dr. Brin's contributions to the SF lexicon
> Jon--
> Hi. I guess the conversation got a bit
> involved there. The "troll" wants to remove
> some free-standing articles from Wikipedia.
> Notably those on Alvin (the young Hoon on Jijo)
> and on the Streaker. My sense is that this
> is a philosophical thing to him--he's in the
> "Deletionist" camp on Wikipedia, who want to
> limit the number of articles on "non-notable
> topics". (He also questions articles on minor
> academic journals, people I've never heard of,
> and so on.)
> Whether or not the Alvin and Streaker articles
> stay, our sense was that it would be easier to
> build an extensive Wiki without the "contributions"
> of people like him. Hence the plan to set something
> up apart from Wikipedia.
> ---David
Thanks, David, for that succinct, but thorough explanation of what motivates
the troll and one way to circumvent it. The fact that this character is
operating behind a false persona indicates he doesn't even have the convictions
of his "philosophical" principles.
---Jon
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