[Foundation-l] Wikipedic OCD

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 22:34:39 UTC 2010


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> Some books are very productive in that way, if you have time to add each
> interesting fact to the encyclopedia. TV is a bit awkward to reference,
> at least routinely.
>
> Fred
>
>
>> Does anyone else suffer from this problem, whereby you listen to or
>> watch any kind of programme and think "I could add that to Wikipedia!"
>>
>> For me, there's so many facts I encounter every day that having that
>> thought becomes overwhelming.
>>
>> I just wonder if I'm alone.

Last time I had a serious attack of that, with a Book, I spent a day
doing diagrams and two days learning the math markup language stuff
well enough to transcribe the formulas in accurately.

It is somewhat self-correcting ;-P


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com



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