Hi,
I received this mail from Zoltan (see previous message). My reply follows in a separate mail.
Regards,
Erik
--- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:24:20 -0800 From: "zoltan simon" zasimon@hotmail.com To: erik_moeller@gmx.de Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposed changes (Trojan War)
Dear Erik, Mr. Moeller,
Thank you for your prompt answer. I am still dubious about this fantastic project. I just simply cannot believe that this could exist in our days. I
would feel the same if I would find an Archaeopteryx alive, sitting on a polished diamond in the middle of the trail here in Brazil.
I mean, if anyone can edit any page of this project, a furious or maniac person who disagrees with some text may type in some four-letter-words in it. Or, simply, type in his/her own absurd theory. (Now one can say if an absurd idea is really silly or really revolutionary.) For example, Sir Isaac Newton dated the pyramids of Cheops and his generations 2000 years later than they actually belonged. I think that he was extremely wrong, and modern scholars are right, at least here.
I have written so many works that had been ignored by ruling authorities that I have bacame somehow sceptic: I hardly believe in the progress of the human sciences. Also, I feel that I cannot force my results onto anyone. I
would prefer to send my non-conformist conclusions to yourself first. It would be too strange to revise hundreds of articles arbitrarily, without consulting yourself directly first. I mean, my revisions are mainly chronographical, and that is the skeleton of history. It is present everywhere, in every article.
For example, I have a manuscript of 52 pages, entitled a revised chronology of the ancient world, entitled "Black box from the past," a revised Greek (Athens and Sparta) and Latin-Roman chronology, 24 and 5 pages respectively. Could I mail those to you? Or, is it possible by e-mail Attachments? (In what format? It is in Word Document now.)
Thank you for your kind comments and advise that is extremely important for the progress/ advancement of the sciences. Perhaps I send you now another message about our works and subjects. If you accept my results somehow, I would be glad to be your editor in the Hungarian language. (I also speak Spanish and "Portugnol," a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese.)
Sincerely yours,
Zoltan
From: Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de To: "zoltan simon" zasimon@hotmail.com CC: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposed changes (Trojan War) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:48:14 +0100 (MET)
Hello Zoltan,
thanks for your detailed feedback regarding the "Penelope" page. I'll incorporate the changes you suggested. You may or may not have noticed
that
Wikipedia is a collaborative project run by volunteers -- it's a whole encyclopedia built by hundreds of people from all around the world, in many different languages. It works by allowing everyone to edit any page (a history of
all
changes is kept so that bad edits can be reverted). That way, Wikipedia
has
become a quickly growing and evolving repository of human knowledge.
I write this to let you know that you, too, can feel free to make any changes you consider helpful to the Penelope article and any others you
are
interested in. This includes the addition of references, quotes, or whatever you feel is appropriate. You do not need any special "geeky" knowledge to do so, it's very simple.
Just go to this page: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Penelope&action=edit
An editing window should pop up which allows you to change the text of
the
article. You can write normal text, and if you want to use formatting
like
italics, lists etc., there's a page that describes how to do that:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AHow_does_one_edit_a_page
We'd appreciate it if you would take a look at pages that interest you,
and
try to improve them where you can!
Yours sincerely, and thanks again for your mail,
Erik Moeller
Wikipedia contributor
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