Hi,
I received this mail from Zoltan (see previous message). My reply follows in
a separate mail.
Regards,
Erik
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:24:20 -0800
From: "zoltan simon" <zasimon(a)hotmail.com>
To: erik_moeller(a)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(a)gmx.de>
To: "zoltan simon" <zasimon(a)hotmail.com>
CC: wikien-l(a)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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