AboutUs.org http://www.aboutus.org/Wikipedia.org also makes interesting use of an infobox in every article. Their stuff is almost exclusively about web domains, so obviously it's external links and the like. But the interesting part is that they can point to a section to glean address info from (they don't do it on the wikipedia domainpage), thus being able to use a Google maps function. This might be really cool for appropriate geography articles on Wikipedia.
On Jan 20, 2008 9:28 PM, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/01/2008, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
From: Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com
Wikipedia needs to assert control over its content once in a while. The fact that the majority of most-frequented articles on wikipedia are fiction means nothing to administrators who only care for the project, as opposed to those readers who just use up bandwidth and processing power on the server. It would be quite valuable to the project to wipe out fiction articles as it would save heaps on monthly bandwidth bills.
I actually can't tell whether this is intended as a serious position
statement or as an over-the-top parody of deletionism. If it's parody, good show. If it's serious... good lord. _Our readers are not our enemies_. We're not some sort of noble guardians of an ivory tower, trying to fight off hordes of yokels unworthy to read our precious works of pure academia. There's no "Us" and "Them" to insert a "versus" between. The more people that find value in our content the better, no matter who they are.
If bandwidth reduction is so important, how about we require login to
view our pages and bounce non-logged-in viewers to answers.com or one of our other mirrors? (Yes, it's a ridiculous idea. I'm doing the parody thing there).
A good parody has a certain amount of truth in it! Better to get frustrations out with extreme parody than endless ramblings ;-)
The answers.com idea sounds like the kind of idea that fits a good parody!
Peter
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