<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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21/01/2008, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
From: Peter Ansell
<ansell.peter(a)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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