Right, it's all relative to how individuals look at the world. For example, this is how the world looks in my eyes.[1]
Russavia [1] http://bit.ly/1uulRAb P.S. No guessing where I come from :> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > "Other" ! That's still okay -- as long as it's not, well, "othering" ;) > > (The thing that really nailed this one for me was when I was studying the > "Middle East" as a teenager and someone made the point to me that, it's the > "middle of what"? It's only "middle" if you're in the "west" and think of > Asia as the "far" east. If you're in Japan, the middle east it actually > more like the middle west, and in South Africa, more like, "generally > north." Mind = blown. [Further digression -- what's the answer then? > Nowadays, many scholars use "SWANA" South-West Asia, North Africa, where > the only polarity is the center of the relevant continents themselves.]) > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Joe Sutherland < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Fair! I was just looking for a cheap word to make “culture” a bit less… >> short. ;) >> >> Joe >> >> On 16 November 2014 at 7:24:30 pm, Katherine Maher ([email protected]) >> wrote: >> >> Good points! Also, exotic is in the eye of the beholder -- my love of >> salted herring is not exotic in Amsterdam, but definitely unusual in >> Cairo.* >> >> *Example purposes only, can't say I've ever cottoned to herring of any >> sort. >> >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Joe Sutherland < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Good point - LGTM now. >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> On 15 November 2014 16:02, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Joe Sutherland < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 15 November 2014 03:04, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> > Hello everyone, >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Here is the proposed social media for "Browsing Wikipedia While >>>>>> Sailing The >>>>>> > South Pacific: The Goodall Family's Experience Offline Browsing" >>>>>> blog post. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Blog post: >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ >>>>>> > >>>>>> > t: No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family at sea tells us what it's like to >>>>>> use >>>>>> > #OfflineWikipedia: >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ >>>>>> > >>>>>> Refining a bit to add some exotism ;) and to include the Kiwix >>>>>> Twitter handle: >>>>>> >>>>>> No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family sailing the South Pacific tells us how >>>>>> they use #OfflineWikipedia: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ >>>>>> @KiwixOffline >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > f/g: The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without >>>>>> Wi-Fi >>>>>> > access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #kiwix >>>>>> the >>>>>> > offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from >>>>>> culture to >>>>>> > the fish they'd like to eat for dinner. >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ >>>>>> > >>>>>> Tweaked: >>>>>> >>>>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi >>>>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, >>>>>> the offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from >>>>>> culture to the fish they'd like to eat for dinner. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This reads quite oddly (possibly because "culture" is a far shorter >>>>> clause than "fish they'd like to eat for dinner". How's this: >>>>> >>>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi >>>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the >>>>> offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from exotic >>>>> cultures to the fish they'd like for dinner. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Good point about "culture". But I don't really see where the post talks >>>> about exotic cultures among its examples, so I would modify further: >>>> >>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi >>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the >>>> offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from Greek >>>> mythology to the fish they'd like for dinner. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > -- >>>>>> > Michael Guss >>>>>> > Research Analyst >>>>>> > Wikimediafoundation.org >>>>>> > [email protected] >>>>>> > >>>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>>> > Social-media mailing list >>>>>> > [email protected] >>>>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Tilman Bayer >>>>>> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Social-media mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Joe Sutherland >>>>> Communications Volunteer >>>>> m: +45 50 28 40 84 | t: @jrbsu | w: jsutherland >>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Social-media mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tilman Bayer >>>> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Social-media mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Joe Sutherland >>> Communications Volunteer >>> m: +45 50 28 40 84 | t: @jrbsu | w: jsutherland >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Katherine Maher >> Chief Communications Officer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 149 New Montgomery Street >> San Francisco, CA 94105 >> >> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >> +1 (415) 712 4873 >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> -- >> Joe Sutherland >> Communications Volunteer >> m: +44 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu | w: jsutherland >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Katherine Maher > Chief Communications Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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