Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Tesler vpt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone - This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York last January..http://ideagra.ph We presented this as a way to discuss a few of the most complicated/controversial Wikimedia-related issues

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. http://www.cpedia.com/ It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. - d. Lmao.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 April 2010 17:05, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread geni
On 12 April 2010 01:31, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. http://www.cpedia.com/ It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. - d. Well in theory an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Tesler vpt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone - This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York last January..http://ideagra.ph We presented this as a way to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
David Gerard wrote: On 13 April 2010 17:05, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated encyclopedia.

2010-04-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
geni wrote: On 12 April 2010 01:31, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. http://www.cpedia.com/ It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: A common way to stifle discussion about nuance in any situation is to refer to old discussions on similar ideas and say we already discussed this and got consensus. Keeping an ancient history of all past debates could

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 April 2010 23:06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: But the opposite approach is as bad or worse:  If every issue must be argued anew when someone brings it up then the ultimate outcome is that by sheer pigheaded persistence you will eventually get your way once everyone saner