In the long run--ten and thirty years from now--the merit of Sanger's claim to coufoundership of Wikipedia is likely to be measured by the success of Citizendium.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < [email protected]> wrote: > Ken Arromdee wrote: > >>> He obviously is claiming that things which we say are true, aren't. > Even > >>> in > >>> the non-article case, where he objects to the factual content of > >>> proclamations > >>> by us instead of articles by us, this is something we should pay > attention > >>> to.>> > >>> > >> Proclamations by Jimmy, not by anyone else. > >> > > > > Is it clear that the proclamations from him don't necessarily represent > our > > opinion and should not be taken as such (particularly by reporters)? > > > > > > > > Yes it actually was. The context in which the *interpretations* > of the historical events by Jimbo which got up Mr. Sanger's nose > were expressed, was clearly one in which Jimbo was speaking in > a personal faculty, and not as a representative of the foundation, > and in my view fell squarely on freedom of opinion. > > There are issues of fact which support a different interpretation > than the one Jimbo appears to uphold, but in the final analysis > it all hinges on what ones definition of the term "co-founder" is, > and is it something formal that is inalienable; call somebody a > co-founder once and you can't correct the record later. A favorable > gloss on the interpretation Jimbo holds is that the early mentions > of Mr. Sanger as a co-founder were symbolic and as a courtesy and > as such not to be taken as a comment on his role in terms of > historical fact. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
