[WikiEN-l] Oh look, it's another Wikipedia killer

2009-05-04 Thread David Gerard
http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/ This time it's Wolfram Alpha. - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Oh look, it's another Wikipedia killer

2009-05-04 Thread stevertigo
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/ This time it's Wolfram Alpha. Wikipedia kills itself just fine thanks. -SV ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Oh look, it's another Wikipedia killer

2009-05-04 Thread FT2
I can't recall whether it's every few hours, days or weeks that human beings destroy and remake a large part of our cellular anatomy. Point being that theHindu culture has that bit right - creation and destruction are both creative forces, and in many ways the same creative force. Its hard to say

Re: [WikiEN-l] Slog rate

2009-05-04 Thread stevertigo
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, how do you quantify that? You gave a numerical value for the slog rate, what is the formula for calculating it? And what's the slog rank? I'm using rank here to refer to a level of deterioration within an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Slog rate

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/4 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, how do you quantify that? You gave a numerical value for the slog rate, what is the formula for calculating it? And what's the slog rank? I'm using rank here to refer

Re: [WikiEN-l] Perfection

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/4 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: Dealing with an issue on [[Talk:Perfect crime]]: Me: ...which is of course not to say that the concept of perfect crime is meaningless, just that it only has meaning outside of a religious view and within very narrow contexts like colloquial usage and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Perfection

2009-05-04 Thread Angela Anuszewski
I didn't want to seem rude my asking what the point was, but I agree - I don't understand the point you were trying to make. If I had to make a guess, I assume you are in some sort of disagreement on that talk page - I haven't visited it - about what is and isn't encyclopedic and came here

Re: [WikiEN-l] Perfection

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/4 Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com: I didn't want to seem rude I never let that concern me! ;) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

[WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread David Gerard
http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now Nice comment on this article: Some say that all software loaded on a local machine will soon be obsolete, so it's not a problem with Encarta, but with technology. I wonder if Wikipedia will be here 10 years from now, with it's long-winded

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread geni
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now Nice comment on this article: Some say that all software loaded on a local machine will soon be obsolete, so it's not a problem with Encarta, but with technology. I wonder if Wikipedia will be

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. That's 167 characters. Think we could get a 140 character requirement added to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/5 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: know in 140 characters or less. You should read the Twitterpedia version of the Peloponnesian War. Soon, that's all we'll be able to comprehend,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote: 2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread wjhonson
-Original Message- From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, 4 May 2009 5:11 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win The Peloponnesian War (431-404BC): Athens and its empire fought the Peloponnesian League, led by

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread Isabell Long
Hmmm. Interesting. I do think that some of the introductory sentences of some articles go on too much with information that should be in other sections or paragraphs, and an introductory sentence should convey the main subject of the article and some basic fact so you can look at it and know that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread Angela
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.lisnews.org/encyclopedic_knowledge_then_vs_now (okay, there is no Twitterpedia,... not a real one, anyway.) So. Who's going to start Twitterpedia? There's one at http://peqi.wikia.com/ and I've seen a couple of