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Gordon Joly

8 Dec 2005 8 Dec '05

2:42 p.m.

There's gold in them there hills! http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1661693,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1661567,00.html -- Gordo (aka LoopZilla) gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://pobox.com/~gordo/ http://www.loopzilla.org/

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charles matthews

8 Dec 8 Dec

3:47 p.m.

"Gordon Joly" wrote

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There's gold in them there hills! http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1661693,00.html

One golden quote from that, anyway: 'cynics are concerned'. WP changes the world - up to now, cynics through history have cultivated disdain and a total lack of concern in relation to human striving , but a whiff of false data on our pet wiki, and we see a radical upset. Of course it is possible our reporter is getting his cynics and his sceptics in a twist ... Charles

Sherool

6:03 p.m.

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:42:09 +0100, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

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There's gold in them there hills! http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1661693,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1661567,00.html

MacGyverMagic/Mgm

8:35 p.m.

Yes, this kind of articles makes me wish the guardian had an edit button. Does anyone know how to reach the person who wrote it to get it corrected? Mgm On 12/8/05, Sherool <jamydlan(a)online.no> wrote:

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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:42:09 +0100, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

There's gold in them there hills! http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1661693,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1661567,00.html

Nice to see some "good press" for a change, but theyr factual accuracy could have been better... Refering to www.wikipedia.com rather than en.wikipedia.org and saying that contributions by anonymous users are banned (they can contribute just fine, just not create new articles), and saying there are 600 editors (asume they mean admins) and such. -- [[User:Sherool]] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Arwel Parry

10:17 p.m.

New subject: Wikipedia is "gold dust" (Guardian article and leader)

In message <fb7fdd9c0512081235m63c6cefbp84f969032fea4dcd(a)mail.gmail.com>om>, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org> writes

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Yes, this kind of articles makes me wish the guardian had an edit button. Does anyone know how to reach the person who wrote it to get it corrected? Mgm

"It is the policy of the Guardian to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please quote the date and page number. Readers may contact the office of the readers' editor by telephoning +44 (0)20 7713 4736 between 11am and 5pm UK time Monday to Friday excluding public holidays. Send mail to The Readers' Editor, 119 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3ER. Fax +44 (0)20 7239 9997. Email: reader(a)guardian.co.uk"

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On 12/8/05, Sherool <jamydlan-f/vm7P8qpiNhl2p70BpVqQ(a)public.gmane.org> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:42:09 +0100, Gordon Joly ><gordon.joly-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > There's gold in them there hills! > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1661693,00.html > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1661567,00.html > > Nice to see some "good press" for a change, but theyr factual accuracy > could have been better... Refering to www.wikipedia.com rather than > en.wikipedia.org and saying that contributions by anonymous users are > banned (they can contribute just fine, just not create new articles), and > saying there are 600 editors (asume they mean admins) and such. > > -- > [[User:Sherool]] >

-- Arwel Parry http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/

Arwel Parry

9 Dec 9 Dec

12:50 p.m.

New subject: Wikipedia is "gold dust" (Guardian article and leader)

In message <cdk3vsJmDLmDFwVL(a)cartref.demon.co.uk>uk>, Arwel Parry <arwel-wfA80NnNzEcG2Il/BtU0GPXRex20P6io(a)public.gmane.org> writes

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In message <fb7fdd9c0512081235m63c6cefbp84f969032fea4dcd-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@pub lic.gmane.org>, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg(a)public.gman e.org> writes

Yes, this kind of articles makes me wish the guardian had an edit button. Does anyone know how to reach the person who wrote it to get it corrected? Mgm

Hmph! That's an interesting feature of the mailing list software. The actual email address is reader (at) guardian.co.uk It'll also be interesting to see if this gets to the list without being moderated, since it's the third posting I've made recently... -- Arwel Parry http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/

Tony Sidaway

10 Dec 10 Dec

6:53 p.m.

New subject: Wikipedia is "gold dust" (Guardian article and leader)

On 12/9/05, Arwel Parry <arwel(a)cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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reader-ckTX/lAc7te9FHfhHBbuYA(a)public.gmane.org"

Hmph! That's an interesting feature of the mailing list software. The actual email address is reader (at) guardian.co.uk

You mean someone actually wrote some asinine bit of code to turn email addresses into nonsense? Ridiculous. Every cloud has a silver lining. Thanks to this affair we seem to have acquired our first leader articles in national press, and (I'm rather proud of this) a definite article. Now we're The Wikipedia.

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Arwel Parry
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