> > Thanks for the tipoff, hopefully if we ever do take advertising it won't be > quite that mind numbingly bad. They certainly got the idea of dab pages, > admins, inane edit wars (must check out [[Crystallography]] to see whether > it currently says that if Topaz crystals make you drowzy or alert) and the > potential conflict between the scientific and pseudo-scientific factions. > But the net-nanny stuff is I suspect more a dig at corporate IT prudishness > rather than at wikipedia - I once worked at a place where someone in IT had > set the Internet censor software to the tightest porn threshold, not > realising why that was known as the Saudi setting.
WereSpielChequers > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:18 -0500 > From: "kgnp...@gmail.com" <kgnp...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia > parod y > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4a68d056.1fba720a.7732.ffffa...@mx.google.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Parodies are compliments in my book. ?Sarcasm to flattery and all that. > ?Look forward to a US available link. > > -- Sent from my Palm Pre > David Gerard wrote: > > > http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/922216/BBC-Radio-4-launches-Wikipedia-parody/ > > "LONDON - BBC Radio 4 is launching a "broadwebcasting" show parodying > the internet by mocking pop-ups, search boxes and other aspects of > online activity. Produced and directed by Pozzitive, the four-part > series is called 'Bigipedia' and has taken its inspiration from > Wikipedia. It airs from July 23 at 11pm." > > (That's 10pm UTC tonight, a bit over three hours from now.) > > > - d. > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:39:51 +0100 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia > parod y > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <a4359dff0907231439k1de0d8f2sa2da4f54dcd7...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2009/7/23 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > > 2009/7/23 kgnp...@gmail.com <kgnp...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Parodies are compliments in my book. ?Sarcasm to flattery and all that. > ?Look forward to a US available link. > > > > > > It'll be on the iPlayer, so UK people can listen again later and > > theoretically record it to put up somewhere. > > Yeah, let's not suggest copy infringement, huh? ("Theoretically" isn't > going to make any difference.) > > > > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
