On 14 April 2013 14:24, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
What needs to be
explained more clearly is what took its place. I remember saying to
Brianna Laugher at the time - she raised the point in Taipei, so was
ahead of many of us - that "people who like rules" were displacing the
old-school guys.
There's something about the whole process that's catnip for people who
desperately want nothing more from life than a real-world game of
Nomic. This was obvious by 2004, when we were still in many ways
working out from first principles how to write an encyclopedia.
- d.