Speaking of Hector, can someone translate this for me: "¿Habéis pensado en diseñar un Wiki específico para el trabajo de pulir los módulos-entradas?. Muchos proyectos de Software están considerando aprovechar la dinámica "Document-mode" de los Wikis como una alternativa a las "message boards" que permite una documentación persistente, no repetitiva e hipertextualmente articulada de los temas que se van tratando a petición de los usuarios." It was written by Álvaro Tejero Cantero on December 24, 2000, just a week before the conversation at the taco stand. I can't figure out if it's talking about software, or if it's talking about...well...Wikipedia.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]>wrote: > Probably March 2001 would be the earliest slashdotting: > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244 > > And right at the end it says: > > Hector, who started the 'gnupedia' project recently wrote this on his > mailing list: > > "Now, the FSF's plans are give all the support to the Nupedia project. > So Nupedia will become the official GNU encyclopedia." > > -0) "Nupedia seems to be too centralized and slow moving for me. I > understand the need for quality control, but wouldn't it make more > sense to have a more bazaar-type free encyclopedia project?" > > Maybe so! People who want to get started _today_ on contributing free > texts to the world can do so at Wikipedia. All the content is released > under the GNU FDL, and it already has over 1000 articles. Short, and > maybe not the high quality of Nupedia, but with time? Who knows..." > > On 13/04/2009, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > > What really made Wikipedia was free publicity from Slashdot and The New > > York Times during 2001. I don't know if I could find the initial > > Slashdoting, but here are the links to the two New York Times articles: > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/fact-driven-collegial-this-site-wants-you.html > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/the-year-in-ideas-a-to-z-populist-editing.html > > > > So I would say at least some of the credit goes to folks who recognized a > > good idea and alerted the rest of the intellectual and internet community > > to it. > > > > Fred Bauder > > -- > -Ian Woollard > > We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly > imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect > world would be pretty ghastly though. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
