On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Sam Blacketer &lt;sam.blacketer(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: <snip> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/10/wikipedia.internet Thanks for bringing up that old article from 2008. Some lovely bits there: "It was like a giant community leaf-raking project in which everyone was called a groundsman. Some brought very fancy professional metal rakes, or even back-mounted leaf-blowing systems, and some were just kids thrashing away with the sides of their feet or stuffing handfuls in the pockets of their sweatshirts, but all the leaves they brought to the pile were appreciated. And the pile grew and everyone jumped up and down in it, having a wonderful time. And it grew some more, and it became the biggest leaf pile anyone had ever seen, a world wonder. And then self-promoted leaf-pile guards appeared, doubters and deprecators who would look askance at your proffered handful and shake their heads, saying that your leaves were too crumpled or too slimy or too common, throwing them to the side. And that was too bad. The people who guarded the leaf pile this way were called "deletionists". But that came later. First it was just fun. " Rather a nice analogy, I think. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Sam Blacketer < sam.blacketer(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/16/internet-copyright-lawc… produced, mostly the Interesting that it's in quotes. Is it a quotation, or were the quotation marks used improperly? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l