Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Matthews
Brian J Mingus wrote: I believe the banner will be judged, not based on the almost universally bad impressions of it that I have seen from Wikipedians, but based on how much money it makes. I don't think it's surprising that the banner rubs many Wikipedians the wrong way. It was created by a

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-13 Thread stevertigo
Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: I believe the banner will be judged, not based on the almost universally bad impressions of it that I have seen from Wikipedians, but based on how much money it makes. I don't think it's surprising that the banner rubs many Wikipedians the wrong

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-13 Thread David Gerard
2009/11/13 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com: Well its tacky - if for no other reason that it presumes to represent Wikipedia's eternal presence. Which is an interesting thought about futurism, but one that needs an essay to link to.  And the slogan is in SHOUTCASE, which everybody knows is the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Lesson Plan

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Matthews
Fred Bauder wrote: Fred Bauder wrote: http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/wikipedia-lesson-plan/ Indeed, must have worked very well, since as of 2009 [[horse]] has 211 references, an advance on 0 when that was written. I encountered a group of college students editing a somewhat

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-13 Thread Bod Notbod
WIKIPEDIA FOREVER! It just sounds like a war cry or triumphal primal scream. I'd rather the words help or support were in there. The cry makes it sound like Wikipedia is not the least fragile. It sounds like it doesn't need support. ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Lesson Plan

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Matthews
Ray Saintonge wrote: Charles Matthews wrote: The article you posted seemed to take the epistemology as the basic lesson: if you tell me we know that, what do you mean by know? It's a reasonable assumption that being analytical about how something in an encyclopedia article can be