From: Richard Rabinowitz rickyrab@eden.rutgers.edu
Pretty good points, y'know. But single-digit years are pretty weird... :)
Let's number 'em like checks, or serial numbers... just arbitrarily add 1000.
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dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
From: Richard Rabinowitz rickyrab@eden.rutgers.edu
Pretty good points, y'know. But single-digit years are pretty weird... :)
Let's number 'em like checks, or serial numbers... just arbitrarily add 1000.
I propose that everything be in UNIX time, like 1116743058544.
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Timwi wrote:
Alphax wrote:
I propose that everything be in UNIX time, like 1116743058544.
But that is anti-Windows anti-Microsoft POV!
You say that like it's a bad thing :(
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Timwi schrieb:
Alphax wrote:
Timwi wrote:
But that is anti-Windows anti-Microsoft POV!
You say that like it's a bad thing :(
Well, other people seem to think that an anti-Christian or an anti-American POV is a bad thing.
To avoid any bias whatsoever, let each wikipedia count the date by number of edits! 100 edits are a wiki-minute...
Magnus
I'm not sure if this has already been proposed. But can't we just wikify BC/AD and BCE/CE and have their use depend on user preferences, just like with the dates?
-Mgm
On 6/18/05, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
To avoid any bias whatsoever, let each wikipedia count the date by number of edits! 100 edits are a wiki-minute...
Magnus
But that would mean that we could only measure time until the WikiSingularity occurs...
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On 20/06/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this has already been proposed. But can't we just wikify BC/AD and BCE/CE and have their use depend on user preferences, just like with the dates?
That solution was proposed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/BCE-CE_Debate/A... but not very well supported.
Angela.