On 8/7/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The press concentrate on the wiki method and editability as the most amazing thing about Wikipedia.
But I think NPOV is possibly a more important innovation. Other sources aim to explain the view they hold or to be authoritative; NPOV describes the views and has whatever authority that confers.
I'm sorely lacking in snappy quotes, though. I ask your assistance: Explain NPOV in a sentence.
Maybe this joke only works in a society where the original quote is familiar to a wider audience. Besides this, how about this alteration:
"The communists have only tried to change the world, in various ways; the point is to describe it"
Just a thought, Mathias