----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Starling" <[email protected]>
> > *contradicting the "serious" tone > > In my experiance, some wikipedians (esp. On enwiki) feel the wiki > > should > > have a very formal tone, and that share this links are out of place. > > Ive > > always wondered if thats partially in response to all the "wikipedia > > is > > unreliable" talk from academics when 'pedia first became popular > > causing > > people to want wikipedia to have a dry academic feel associated with > > reliability. > > Surely this is an untenable argument now that the websites of so many > scientific journals have share links? e.g. > > http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/65/6/1721.abstract I personally attribute that to "we're so small, we have to cave on this point or no one will know we're here", a problem a small journal might have, but which Wikipedia certainly does not. I'm on the "don't bother" side, for nearly all the reasons previously enumerated. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
