In a message dated 8/22/2009 8:59:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
kgnp...@gmail.com writes:
Right well, I'll start brushing up on my Breton and by the time I get
around
to learning Vietnamese the sun will have obliterated the earth and
Wikipedia
as we know it.--
I will wager $100
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
I will wager $100 that Wikipedia will be gone long before the sun turns
into a Red Giant.
I hope Wikipedia at least outlives me.
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking everything I do with
Wikipedia might be a waste of time
In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking everything I do with
Wikipedia might be a waste of time because I envision it collapsing,
dying, being fatally attacked or somesuch.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
2009/8/21 quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com:
For example, we have these pages, that are variously explicating,
disambiguation, and listing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:52 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking everything I do with
Wikipedia might be a waste of time because I envision it collapsing,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The content of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been
copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it.
Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at
the most :)
In twenty years, we
2009/8/23 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM, genigeni...@gmail.com wrote:
Although we still haven't worked out what size people will general
accept as a fairly complete general encyclopedia.
I think if we had almost every article you would find in a *single
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure
out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as
a flat page.
Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote:
I'm afraid *he*'ll come too early
Yes, that's what I said. Apparently my fingers typed something
completely different though.
Steve
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In a message dated 8/22/2009 10:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dger...@gmail.com writes:
Because there is no need to determine what the meaning of
the particular term or keyword is, the pages it returns generally deal
I said:
It was there on link six.
Turns out it was not to the wikihow site, just a use of their name.
I did see it on the site, one time. Maybe google does hav scruples and leaks
in those scruples, just like wikipedia.
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
So standard physics is a morasse of unprovable assumptions,
unobservables, and blatantly
Subject-Was: Re: Gridlock should be impossible.
Wikipedia is not censored, and obvious signs of personal attacks that nobody
should hav to delete more than once are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot/Source#Score_list
This is where they come from, I think:
Is this new? I searched for lom metadata (without quotes) and got:
Learning object metadata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
14 Jul 2009 ... ANZ-LOM is a metadata profile developed for the
education sector in Australia and New Zealand. The profile provides
interpretations of ...
[[IEEE
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The way it was discussed in-project a teritiary source summarizes
several secondary sources into one cohesive article.
Is a work that summarises/draws on multiple news articles secondary or
tertiary? I wonder, because I've considered
2009/8/23 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The way it was discussed in-project a teritiary source summarizes
several secondary sources into one cohesive article.
Is a work that summarises/draws on multiple news articles secondary or
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote:
What's so bad about encouraging howto information? I'm sure that a lot
of people would find such practical information very useful.
Perhaps so, but it's not in tune with the idea of an encyclopedia,
which is what we're
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Bod Notbodbodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd really hate to go to [[curry]] and see recipes. The sorts of
spices that are often included yes. But not cooking times.
If I look up [[engine]] I want to know how it functions. But I don't
want to see a tutorial on how
but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a
part of that?
You mean the Wikimedia foundation?
Emily
On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The content of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's
In a message dated 8/23/2009 4:53:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
The search for bees and flowers suggests pollination. I do not see
anything mindless about that. That is a human association
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You're not understanding me. An article
In a message dated 8/23/2009 6:07:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=enq=wikihow+enlargement+penismeta=
It was there on link six.
It's a bit rough to complain about Wikihow in this regard. It's
Steve, news articles *in general* are primary sources.
Here is how you can tell: Is what I'm reading the first time someone has
published what I'm reading?
So and so was hit by a car today -- primary source, first time published.
Secondary sources collate multiple primary sources, any
Of course the whole reason you'd want to put a reference to Vienna
into the article on Vienne is that it's a French name, and if you
happen to be reading a French text using Wikipedia as a reference it
might be useful for you to know that the name Vienne may sometimes
refer to a foreign capital.
In a message dated 8/23/2009 1:59:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bodnot...@gmail.com writes:
Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that
give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that
that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
snip
You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be articles per
se,
Complaint Over Doctor Who Posted Inkblot Test
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24inkblot.html
'The doctor who helped Wikipedia publish the 10 inkblots of the Rorschach test
is being investigated by his local doctors’ organization after it received
complaints that his actions were
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