Well, in relative terms, anyway:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_spe…http://tinyurl.com/dxdujw
"Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to
reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest
websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280
million people."
Not sure if his figures are accurate, but it's intriguing.
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:52 EDT, WJhonson(a){gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
wrote:
> That's overreading and here is why.
> Omaha is in Nebraska. Henry Fonda was born in Omaha.
> Henry Fonda was born in Nebraska.
> Nebraska is a state with a low population which grows mainly corn.
> Henry Fonda was born in a state which grows mainly corn.
>
> We have no source which states this. It is a trival inference from the
> known statements. We are allows to make trivial inferences, observations,
> conclusions.
One must be careful, though; there are many logically fallacious
things that people can carelessly make as "trivial" inferences. For
instance, that Henry Fonda grew corn (or that his parents did), which
does not follow from the above facts.
It's questionable under what circumstances one would want to
specifically mention that Fonda was born in a state that grows corn,
if this fact wasn't directly in any sources; if the aim is to attempt
to make inferences about his outlook in life based on some "corn
belt" stereotype, that certainly would not be warranted.
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I am launching a new forum for Wikipedia users. Please feel free to ask any
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The Wikipedia Forum aims to provide a place where all Wikipedia users can talk,
suggest, comment & argue. Wikipedia itself provides no easy & accessible way of
doing this-Wikipedia talk pages are confined to topics that directly relate to the
article & conversation between multiple users is unwieldy & confusing. Mailing
lists are also confusing & do not scale very well to large conversations between
many people, resulting in full inboxes containing a large number of emails quoting
the previous one & taking up 4 pages.
Users are free to talk about anything with very little censorship, yet the aim is
not to become a forum for Wikipedia haters. Instead it caters for everyone, from
the average user confused about how to add templates, to administrators wishing to
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Totally free & requiring no public information that can be linked with your
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In a message dated 4/25/2009 2:06:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com writes:
Hmmm, does the WMF talk to Google about this issue?>>
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The content of your postings to any site, are your responsibility, not the
sites.
So the Foundation would need to send cease-and-desist letters directly to
individuals authors.
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I've registered, but I hope it isn't going to be another Wikipedia Review.
The atmosphere there is not to my liking, to put it nicely.
2009/4/24 Tris <tris(a)waterhay.co.uk>:
>I am launching a new forum for Wikipedia users. Please feel free to ask any
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In a message dated 4/24/2009 3:19:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com writes:
> Mr "Brown" shot his wife on 13 Aug 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She died
on
> the way to the hospital leaving him with three teen-aged boys.
>
> John Smith shot his wife on 13 Aug 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She died
on
> the way to the hospital leaving him with three teen-aged boys.
>
> Trivial? I would say it's trivial.
I wouldn't. It's hardly unheard of for two people to shoot their wives
in the same city on the same day. That's pretty strong evidence that
they are the same person, but it is far from 100%.>>
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You trivialize the example by ignoring it's completeness. He didn't just
shoot his wife.
As contributors we have to be able to recognize when two things are the
same thing. That is part of our discernment. The identity equation is a
trivial observation. It's the most trivial we can make.
Will Johnson
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In a message dated 4/24/2009 1:22:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
nawrich(a)gmail.com writes:
Anyway, the policy is clear. You often have an opinion on Wikipedia
policies
and practices that differs from the normal consensus interpretation, but it
is the consensus interpretation that binds and not Will Johnson's.>>
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Or I might have an opinion that matches the Wikipedia policy.
That mine differs is your interpretation of the language of the policy.
My interpretation is that my opinion matches that language.
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