On 04/05/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, it is assuming that Wikipedia's mission is to
be a reference work,
otherwise known as an encyclopedia. The last message we want to send
is "If you're big and bad enough, and you don't like what we say, make
rumblings about a lawsuit. It'll be gone within the hour." The message
we want to send is "We're a reference work. We publish numerical
values all over the place. It's not a "circumvention tool", it is a
-number-. Its decimal value is somewhere around 1.325E37.
As a typical querulous wikien-l contributor, I must note that it is a
string of bits that happens to form a number. Certainly in its notable
form, it's a string of ASCII text.
Other than that, yes, precisely. Rolling over on this one is *ridiculous*.
Mind you, I still want to wait at least a week. The article's a bit
better now, but needs more substance.
- d.