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Steven Walling

22 Aug 22 Aug

7:22 a.m.

Hows about a link? On 8/21/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:

Stephen Colbert did another of his ridicule jobs on Wikipedia, this time centered on WikiScanner, and how it's evil because it engages in "outing" of the online personas of... no, not individual Wikipedians, but corporations, which are people with rights too. How dare that evil attack site expose that Exxon is creating an online personality in which it's a friend of the environment? -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Steven Walling

5:50 p.m.

Thanks Oskar. And nice catch Daniel. On 8/22/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On 8/22/07, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hows about a link?

For Colbert Report videos, go to Comedy Central's website. They have a whole bunch of them going back quite a ways. Here is the wiki-segment on last nights show: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=91912 It's not exactly the most inspired commentary, but it is fairly amusing. If you want to see Jimmy's interview on the show from a while back, that can be found here: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=87528 He seems really hurt that he was blocked and accused of vandalism :) --Oskar _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Oskar Sigvardsson

10:12 p.m.

On 8/22/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:

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My impression is that Colbert is actually pro-Wikipedia. He'll make mincemeat out of anyone who doesn't grasp his kind of humour. When he was on Jimbo showed himself able to roll with the punches. By contrast when Colbert asked Andrew (Cult of the Amateur) Keen what he thought of Wikipedia, Keen appeared very uncomfortable. Keen's pomposity is easily deflated. Someone without a sense of humour that appears on Colbert would do just as well to appear on Jerry Springer.

I think it was pretty clear from the Jimbo interview that he is a big fan (he said as much in his honest voice at the end). Andrew "I really need to be slapped" Keen appeared as assholish as he does everywhere. Even a little bit more so (few people can "out-jerk" the Colbert-character), if that's possible. --Oskar

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Jimmy Wales

2:23 a.m.

Ray Saintonge wrote:

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Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

Stephen Colbert did another of his ridicule jobs on Wikipedia, this time centered on WikiScanner, and how it's evil because it engages in "outing" of the online personas of... no, not individual Wikipedians, but corporations, which are people with rights too. How dare that evil attack site expose that Exxon is creating an online personality in which it's a friend of the environment?

My impression is that Colbert is actually pro-Wikipedia. He'll make mincemeat out of anyone who doesn't grasp his kind of humour. When he was on Jimbo showed himself able to roll with the punches. By contrast when Colbert asked Andrew (Cult of the Amateur) Keen what he thought of Wikipedia, Keen appeared very uncomfortable. Keen's pomposity is easily deflated. Someone without a sense of humour that appears on Colbert would do just as well to appear on Jerry Springer.

Yes, I talked to him backstage after the show. He's a huge fan. And a really nice guy. --Jimbo

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