--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Quite a good article
But also exactly the article which makes the world believe this is an english project, run by english editors.
Not exactly the kind of rumors all of us appreciate.
Poor, Edmund W a �crit:
-----Original Message----- From: TL@pipeline.com [mailto:TL@pipeline.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:22 PM To: Poor, Edmund W Subject: article of interest
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki_pr.html
I'm sure EVERYONE has seen this article but me, by
now. I feel like I
just got a big pat on the back for my 3 1/2 years
of work! This writer
is very friendly and has captured the essence of
Wikipedia much, MUCH
better than anyone else heretofore. I just wish
his article was GFDL'd
so I could incorporate all his descriptions.
Uncle Ed
P.S. A non-Wikipedian sent me the URL
You mean the parts that talk about the Wikipedias in 75 languages, and how the millionth article was in the Hebrew Wikipedia?
RickK
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Rick a écrit:
--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Quite a good article
But also exactly the article which makes the world believe this is an english project, run by english editors.
Not exactly the kind of rumors all of us appreciate.
Poor, Edmund W a écrit:
-----Original Message----- From: TL@pipeline.com [mailto:TL@pipeline.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:22 PM To: Poor, Edmund W Subject: article of interest
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki_pr.html
I'm sure EVERYONE has seen this article but me, by
now. I feel like I
just got a big pat on the back for my 3 1/2 years
of work! This writer
is very friendly and has captured the essence of
Wikipedia much, MUCH
better than anyone else heretofore. I just wish
his article was GFDL'd
so I could incorporate all his descriptions.
Uncle Ed
P.S. A non-Wikipedian sent me the URL
You mean the parts that talk about the Wikipedias in 75 languages, and how the millionth article was in the Hebrew Wikipedia?
RickK
I mean... you know... a concept called NPOV, which tries to represent fairly the facts. In an encyclopedic article, that might have involved balancing the amount of text used to describe one part of the reality and the amount of text used to describe the other part of the reality.
Such as talking only of the english encyclopedia, during all the article, while talking of the other languages in one line. I do not think it is balanced. And I do not think people reading this article will keep in mind this information. And when people asking us for presentation tell me "why on earth would a french person represent and make presentation of wikipedia ???", I know that such comments comes from articles such as danny's one, which propagate a selected truth.
Articles such as danny one are good, but they have a serious pov stamp on them.
So, all I can say is "long live wikipedia which is able to be fair and neutral".