Folks,
I am watching (rather smugly I admit ;-)) the slow dismantling and ultimate
destruction of the Category concept in Wikipedia. What could be a wonderful
research tool, has deteriorated into a useless game. May it rest in pieces.
Marc Riddell
On 30 Apr 2007 at 10:40:59 +0800, "Andrew Lih"
<andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I do encourage you to listen to WikipediaWeekly.com when the episode
> comes out later this week.
I'd be more favorably inclined to it if it were at
WikipediaWeekly.org instead, so it didn't look like a for-profit
enterprise. (Last I checked, the .org domain was still unregistered;
one of these days, some cybersquatter will likely grab it and put
something obnoxious there.)
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The warning signs were when the Arbitration Committee decided that continual agitation was just "free speech". We all know the users who have taken the lead. The precipitating event is at:
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Kelly Martin 4
Fred
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>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Administrator flameout: Naconkantari
>
>Per last week's very topical discussion, we just lost someone again (maybe).
>
>[[User talk:Naconkantari]]
>
>I was off away from the net while this all happened. Did anyone see
>any warning signs?
>
>
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Per last week's very topical discussion, we just lost someone again (maybe).
[[User talk:Naconkantari]]
I was off away from the net while this all happened. Did anyone see
any warning signs?
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On 30 Apr 2007 at 23:41 +0200, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm"
<macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> #1 If anything is wrong with categories is that it's nearly impossible to
> trace when something is added or removed from a cat.
Including catnip?
I wouldn't try to remove something from a cat, unless it's been
declawed.
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