"Other" ! That's still okay -- as long as it's not, well, "othering" ;)
(The thing that really nailed this one for me was when I was studying the "Middle East" as a teenager and someone made the point to me that, it's the "middle of what"? It's only "middle" if you're in the "west" and think of Asia as the "far" east. If you're in Japan, the middle east it actually more like the middle west, and in South Africa, more like, "generally north." Mind = blown. [Further digression -- what's the answer then? Nowadays, many scholars use "SWANA" South-West Asia, North Africa, where the only polarity is the center of the relevant continents themselves.])
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Fair! I was just looking for a cheap word to make “culture” a bit less… short. ;)
Joe
On 16 November 2014 at 7:24:30 pm, Katherine Maher (kmaher@wikimedia.org) wrote:
Good points! Also, exotic is in the eye of the beholder -- my love of salted herring is not exotic in Amsterdam, but definitely unusual in Cairo.*
*Example purposes only, can't say I've ever cottoned to herring of any sort.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Good point - LGTM now.
Joe
On 15 November 2014 16:02, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Joe Sutherland < jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 15 November 2014 03:04, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Michael Guss mguss@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
Here is the proposed social media for "Browsing Wikipedia While
Sailing The
South Pacific: The Goodall Family's Experience Offline Browsing"
blog post.
Blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-o...
t: No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family at sea tells us what it's like to
use
#OfflineWikipedia:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-o...
Refining a bit to add some exotism ;) and to include the Kiwix Twitter handle:
No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family sailing the South Pacific tells us how they use #OfflineWikipedia:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-o... @KiwixOffline
f/g: The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without
Wi-Fi
access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #kiwix
the
offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from
culture to
the fish they'd like to eat for dinner.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-o...
Tweaked:
The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from culture to the fish they'd like to eat for dinner.
This reads quite oddly (possibly because "culture" is a far shorter clause than "fish they'd like to eat for dinner". How's this:
The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from exotic cultures to the fish they'd like for dinner.
Good point about "culture". But I don't really see where the post talks about exotic cultures among its examples, so I would modify further:
The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from Greek mythology to the fish they'd like for dinner.
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