Will wrote: Those are the established procedures of the Wikimedia community. If you don't like Wikimedia, or you think its contributors are wasting their time, you are free to not contribute and to not use it. If myspace is your thing go there.
Peter Blaise responds: ... and ... we're trying to discuss those rules ... and who and how and why they would be implemented or inflicted on ourselves by ourselves.
Anybody else? Anybody else?
- Peter Blaise
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Perhaps we should also define in what arena we're posturing. I think there are at least three, possibly non-interchangeable, venues:
- MediaWiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki the SOFTWARE we're all using either as participants in WikiMedia's Wikis, or building and participating in our own on-WikiMedia Wikis, and hitchhiking on the experiences and examples of the WikiMedia "family".
- WikiMedia - the name for that COMPANY at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home who host a collection of Wikis at http://www.wikimedia.org/
- Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/ one IMPLEMENTATION of the MediaWiki company using their own software
From Google:
Definitions of [wikimedia] on the Web:
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the parent organization of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks (including Wikijunior and Wikiversity), Wikisource, In Memoriam 9/11, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Nupedia (defunct). It is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, USA. Its existence was officially announced by Wikia CEO and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on June 20, 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia
Definitions of [mediawiki] on the Web:
MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a feature-rich wiki implementation, and is used to run Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects, as well as many other wikis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Definitions of [wikipedia] on the Web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page A free content, multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors around the world. The site is a Wiki - anybody can edit and add to an article. Offers quick understanding on controversial issues. Strong in current affairs. http://www.uccb.ca/library/subject/reference/encyclopedias.html
Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in roughly 200 different languages (about 100 of which are active) and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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... so, what were we talking 'bout, again?