On 17 January 2011 04:03, Anthony wrote:
> Or, if you need the whole story:
I think you've just proven Tony's point.
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> And for the avoidance of doubt, I was referring to Anthony's decision
>> to drag in a reference to pointless blog discussion thread about Jimmy
>> Wales' birth date.
>
> I guess one person's
Few organizations track Wikipedia usage. Pew has carried out a couple
of surveys of American adults in recent years, listed below:
2007 http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Wikipedia-users.aspx 2007
"36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia"
Pew found that in America Wikipedia was more
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> And for the avoidance of doubt, I was referring to Anthony's decision
> to drag in a reference to pointless blog discussion thread about Jimmy
> Wales' birth date.
I guess one person's "pointless blog discussion thread" is another
person's "
And for the avoidance of doubt, I was referring to Anthony's decision
to drag in a reference to pointless blog discussion thread about Jimmy
Wales' birth date.
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On 17 January 2011 00:50, wiki wrote:
> I don't think it helps to characterise any simple questioning of the leader
> as a "deranged vendetta".
Simple questioning isn't what I call a "deranged vendetta". Snide
innuendo of the most slimy kind is what I refer to.
As I said, I question the purpose
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM, wiki wrote:
> I don't think it helps to characterise any simple questioning of the leader
> as a "deranged vendetta".
I thought Tony was merely engaging in some gentle self-criticism.
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I don't think it helps to characterise any simple questioning of the leader
as a "deranged vendetta". Are you suggesting all criticism is a mark of
either hatred or insanity - or both? That line of defending leaders against
criticism has a somewhat unsavoury history.
What happened here is that som
I think the point is being missed. Wikipedia does not set out to
manipulate search engine results, that's just a happy accident of its
content being pretty good and many search engines weighting its
content appropriately.
We make the internet not suck by putting the information on our
website, mai
Does every thread referring to Jimmy Wales really have to become a
venue for some deranged vendetta? How does this help us to write an
encyclopedia?
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Interesting thread and questions. A related question though is
whether unfettered eternal searchability of the Internet is
unambiguously a good thing. Take the types of BLP, privacy, etc.
issues we deal with everyday on Wikipedia, and extrapolate them to the
rest of the 'net
Newyorkbrad
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> On 15/01/2011, Carcharoth wrote:
>> To take a specific example, I very occasionally come across names of
>> people or topics where it is next-to-impossible to find out anything
>> meaningful about them because the name is identical to that of
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