[WikiEN-l] BBC Radio 4 - Bigipedia

Thanks for the tipoff, hopefully if we ever do take advertising it won't be quite that mind numbingly bad. They certainly got the idea of dab pages, admins, inane edit wars (must check out [[Crystallography]] to see whether it currently says that if Topaz crystals make you drowzy or alert) and the potential conflict between the scientific and pseudo-scientific factions. But the net-nanny stuff is I suspect more a dig at corporate IT prudishness rather than at wikipedia - I once worked at a place where someone in IT had set the Internet censor software to the tightest porn threshold, not realising why that was known as the Saudi setting.

------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:18 -0500 From: "kgnpaul(a)gmail.com" <kgnpaul(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia parod y To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4a68d056.1fba720a.7732.ffffa644(a)mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Parodies are compliments in my book. ?Sarcasm to flattery and all that. ?Look forward to a US available link. -- Sent from my Palm Pre David Gerard wrote: http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/922216/BBC-Radio-4-launches-Wikipedia-par… "LONDON - BBC Radio 4 is launching a "broadwebcasting" show parodying the internet by mocking pop-ups, search boxes and other aspects of online activity. Produced and directed by Pozzitive, the four-part series is called 'Bigipedia' and has taken its inspiration from Wikipedia. It airs from July 23 at 11pm." (That's 10pm UTC tonight, a bit over three hours from now.) - d. Message: 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:39:51 +0100 From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia parod y To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <a4359dff0907231439k1de0d8f2sa2da4f54dcd7a56(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 2009/7/23 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>: ?Look forward to a US available link. Yeah, let's not suggest copy infringement, huh? ("Theoretically" isn't going to make any difference.)