On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson <
oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM,
<wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
And I would like to thank the Phoenicians for
inventing the alphabet.
W.J. the Current.
I'd like to thank Necessity and her baby-daddy for inventing inventions.
I was going to thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans, but this is getting silly.
Getting silly? It got silly several messages ago. There's a fundamental
difference between the contributions to Wikipedia of Larry Sanger, and those
of Ted Nelson (or Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Edison, Tesla, etc). I'll
leave in Tim Berners-Lee since I believe he has expressed the notion that
Wikipedia is similar to his vision of what the web would be, though I
haven't investigated that.
Wikipedia was certainly a compromise between the visions of many
individuals, but that doesn't mean those individual visions and
accomplishments can't be separated, and instead we must resort to a generic
"made by the community". If Wales can't get 100% credit as "sole
founder",
then he wishes credit to be given to no one at all, but that doesn't mean we
have to follow that reductio ad absurdium.