On 20/01/2011 20:18, Tony Sidaway wrote: > In an article for Wired, Nathaniel Tkacz conducts an interview with an > early Spanish Wikipedian, Edgar Enyedy, who led a couple of dozen in > leaving the project to create a major fork in 2002. This is followed > by responses by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. > > http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/wikipedia-spanish-fork I must be very naive not to have realised, all this time, that the so-called "English Wikipedia" was actually the "American Wikipedia". Or could that nomenclature reveal a somewhat suspicious starting point?
I do think that the early history of WP is quite a good example of why we need historians, not just more self-serving memoirs. Even then I doubt we'll fully understand why things turned out the way they did. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
