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Sarah

9 Aug 2006 9 Aug '06

4:51 a.m.

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

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Rob

9 Aug 9 Aug

7:23 p.m.

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

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Steve Bennett

7:26 p.m.

On 8/9/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

Yeah, the Guardian does. (that was a wikiwisecrack) Steve

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NSLE (Wikipedia)

7:35 p.m.

Again, delighted to still be subscribed. A bit worried about the notion of "voting", then again, the press don't have the proper term for it (hell, Wikipedia still doesn't. It's supposed to be "discussion", last I checked :P). --NSLE On 8/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/9/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

Yeah, the Guardian does. (that was a wikiwisecrack) Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Death Phoenix

7:46 p.m.

!vote has my !vote. On 8/9/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Again, delighted to still be subscribed. A bit worried about the notion of "voting", then again, the press don't have the proper term for it (hell, Wikipedia still doesn't. It's supposed to be "discussion", last I checked :P). --NSLE On 8/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/9/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

Yeah, the Guardian does. (that was a wikiwisecrack) Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Steve Bennett

7:56 p.m.

On 8/9/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Again, delighted to still be subscribed. A bit worried about the notion of "voting", then again, the press don't have the proper term for it (hell, Wikipedia still doesn't. It's supposed to be "discussion", last I checked :P).

"Forming consensus", usually by counting votes. Steve

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David Gerard

8:18 p.m.

On 09/08/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

Presumably Raul did. I'm sure I've used the term too. - d.

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Alphax (Wikipedia email)

10 Aug 10 Aug

1:47 p.m.

David Gerard wrote:

On 09/08/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone really call it "wiki-crack"?

Presumably Raul did. I'm sure I've used the term too.

"To pinch a quote from David Gerard, your first puff of wikicrack's free." -- Rob Church -- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP

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maru dubshinki

2:04 a.m.

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

"Most recently he was elected as a member of the arbitration committee (only those who make 100 edits a week can vote), which is the highest dispute-settling body in the organisation before you get to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, who can deliver a fiat." Mein gott! Just think of all those arbcom cases I missed voting in! What a fool I've been, thinking one had to be elected to Arbcom. ~maru

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Kirill Lokshin

4:10 a.m.

On 8/9/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Guardian article about Wikipedia. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1840193,00.html

"Most recently he was elected as a member of the arbitration committee (only those who make 100 edits a week can vote), which is the highest dispute-settling body in the organisation before you get to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, who can deliver a fiat." Mein gott! Just think of all those arbcom cases I missed voting in! What a fool I've been, thinking one had to be elected to Arbcom.

Actually, I'm guessing they meant to say that "only those who make 100 edits a week can vote" in the elections during which "he was elected as a member of the arbitration committee." Which isn't correct either, of course; but it still seems like a more reasonable interpretation. -- Kirill Lokshin

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