--- Anthere <anthere9(a)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(a)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".