Thanks for the tipoff, hopefully if we ever do take advertising it won't be
quite that mind numbingly bad. They certainly got the idea of dab pages,
admins, inane edit wars (must check out [[Crystallography]] to see whether
it currently says that if Topaz crystals make you drowzy or alert) and the
potential conflict between the scientific and pseudo-scientific factions.
But the net-nanny stuff is I suspect more a dig at corporate IT prudishness
rather than at wikipedia - I once worked at a place where someone in IT had
set the Internet censor software to the tightest porn threshold, not
realising why that was known as the Saudi setting.
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:18 -0500
From: "kgnpaul(a)gmail.com" <kgnpaul(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia
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Parodies are compliments in my book. ?Sarcasm to flattery and all that.
?Look forward to a US available link.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
David Gerard wrote:
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/922216/BBC-Radio-4-launches-Wikipedia-par…
"LONDON - BBC Radio 4 is launching a "broadwebcasting" show parodying
the internet by mocking pop-ups, search boxes and other aspects of
online activity. Produced and directed by Pozzitive, the four-part
series is called 'Bigipedia' and has taken its inspiration from
Wikipedia. It airs from July 23 at 11pm."
(That's 10pm UTC tonight, a bit over three hours from now.)
- d.
Message: 8
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:39:51 +0100
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Brand Republic: BBC Radio 4 launches Wikipedia
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2009/7/23 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/7/23 kgnpaul(a)gmail.com
<kgnpaul(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Parodies are compliments in my book. ?Sarcasm to flattery and all that.
?Look
forward to a US available link.
It'll be on the iPlayer, so UK people can listen again later and
theoretically record it to put up somewhere.
Yeah, let's not suggest copy infringement, huh? ("Theoretically" isn't
going to make any difference.)