Dear all,
I'm going to Boston and then Russia!
These last few weeks and the next few have been and are going to be a
bit hectic for me. I've got the plane tickets, the passport, the
laptop, Jimbo's blessing ;-), money saved, and the visa is on its way.
I have much else to get ready, of course. So if I seem a bit slow in
replying and short in my replies, that might explain it. (Another
explanation I guiltily admit is that I have been helping Wikipedia
along. But I have been vowing to spend more time on the more important
project, viz., Nupedia, now that Wikipedia really is moving along
wonderfully.)
Opinion-he just dumb enough to...:-).
Anonymous Coward
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> So, what do you think--will he reply???
>
> Waiting on pins and needles,
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Sanger" <lsanger(a)nupedia.com>
> To: <president(a)whitehouse.gov>
> Cc: "wikipedia-l" <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:20 PM
> Subject: Encyclopedia entry about the President
>
>
> > Dear Mr. President,
> >
> > While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would
> > like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor
> us
> > with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You
> can
> > find our article about you here:
> >
> > http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush
> >
> > (Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome
> as
> > well.)
> >
> > Best regards and keep up the good work,
> >
> > Larry Sanger
> >
> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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> > Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com
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> >
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So, what do you think--will he reply???
Waiting on pins and needles,
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Sanger" <lsanger(a)nupedia.com>
To: <president(a)whitehouse.gov>
Cc: "wikipedia-l" <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: Encyclopedia entry about the President
> Dear Mr. President,
>
> While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would
> like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor
us
> with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You
can
> find our article about you here:
>
> http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush
>
> (Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome
as
> well.)
>
> Best regards and keep up the good work,
>
> Larry Sanger
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. || lsanger(a)nupedia.com
> Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia || http://www.nupedia.com
> Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>
Dear Mr. President,
While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would
like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor us
with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You can
find our article about you here:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush
(Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome as
well.)
Best regards and keep up the good work,
Larry Sanger
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. || lsanger(a)nupedia.com
Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia || http://www.nupedia.com
Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
I have a request. Is there anyone on the list who is on Everything2?
If so, could you go talk up Wikipedia on Everything2? I have a feeling
we could get a lot of good people from them.
Let me know if you do this. If no one else does, I might just have to
myself...
Larry
I think there's enough content in my pages on ASCII and its
extentions that I can now offer recommendations, and I have done so
on the Wikipedia page "Wiki special characters" (to which I have also
redirected the now-obsolete "Wiki ASCII codes page"). The server at
Bomis does indeed send the header "Content-Type: text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1", so we can use those characters as recommended
without guilt. The non-ISO characters like punctuation and math
symbols and such will perhaps require a bit more research and some
policy decisions.
--------------------------------------
Expect an influx of traffic.
----- Original Message -----
From: <system(a)nupedia.com>
To: <lsanger(a)nupedia.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Nupedia: system up; Wikipedia started; German and Slashdot
invasion
>
> March 22, 2000
>
> Dear Nupedians,
>
> It's been quite a long time since our last update (it was last
December!)--that's mainly because we've been so busy. But I'll keep
this update brief and informal.
>
> As most of you already know, the much-heralded new web-based system is
now up and running:
> http://www.nupedia.com/newsystem/member.phtml
> To see it operate in its full splendor, you'll have to be logged in.
I have promised to add more instructions (where text is underlined) but
have always seemed to lack time to finish this task. Meanwhile, the
system is simple enough, with enough instructions already in place, for
many people to have started using it; others, I'm afraid, might feel
they've been left high and dry. My apologies; I'll try to get those
instructions written. In the meantime, of course, help is available
from many different people.
>
> A conversation with a friend in early January about the so-called
"WikiWiki" software led to the creation of Wikipedia, a new encyclopedia
project complementary to Nupedia:
> http://www.wikipedia.com/
> Basically, *anyone* can go to any page of that website and, by simply
pressing the "edit text" link, edit the text of the page. As of this
moment (Thursdy, March 22, 12:57 PM Pacific Time), we have 2,953 (yes,
2,953) pages in Wikipedia. Of these, 1,816 are relatively substantial
articles. We started in January, 2001, so we've made incredible
progress--even we are surprised. Maybe you think that Wikipedia would
end up being a rather low-quality product, since it's open to everyone.
But perhaps it's the fact that it is open to everyone that makes a lot
of these articles in fact not so bad, and ever-improving. We tend to
cater to the highest common denominator--"lower denominators" usually
don't touch articles they know nothing about.
>
> PLEASE note: the editorial processes and policies of Wikipedia and
Nupedia are totally separate; Nupedia editors and peer reviewers do not
necessarily endorse the Wikipedia project, and Wikipedia contributors do
not necessarily endorse the Nupedia project. I personally am working on
both projects, as are a number of Nupedia members. I think that the
projects might eventually develop a very interesting symbiotic
relationship. But nothing along those lines is official, and no changes
are anticipated in the near future. Certainly no changes will be made
without consulting Advisory-L and Nupedia-L.
>
> In January and February, we had an enormous influx of traffic due to
coverage of Nupedia by the German press agency DPA and by the hugely
popular computer programmer website, Slashdot.org (twice!). (This has
led, by the way, to my getting far behind in my e-mail--something for
which I apologize, but it really couldn't be helped.)
>
> As a result, we have set up Deutsch-L, a mailing list, ably led by
Andreas Flack, which has been producing German translations of various
Nupedia pages. See:
> http://www.nupedia.com/de/
> And as a result of *that*, we've accepted translations of the home
page in French, Italian, and Spanish (as well as German of course).
We've set up Interpret-L for general translation issues, and Francais-L,
a nascent French language translation project. We might soon set up
Espanol-L. See this page for more information:
> http://www.nupedia.com/translating.shtml
>
> Another piece of news is that we have found an able Chief Copyeditor
who may be contacted via the following web pages:
> http://www.nupedia.com/copyediting.shtml
> http://www.nupedia.com/newsystem/copyediting.phtml
>
> Those, then, are some news highlights. There has been much other
news; but I did promise to try to keep this short. If you're curious,
you could join Nupedia-L or simply poke around the website to see what
you've been missing.
>
> Kind regards to all,
> Larry
>
> Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D.
> Nupedia editor-in-chief
> lsanger(a)nupedia.com
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Dear Jimmy,
It would seem that this question should go to deutsch-l,
or Andreas Flack at
sonic(a)arcormail.de
who speaks both German and English well, and is the co
ordinator of the German translation project. Or,
perhaps, it has? It will take less than a minute to come
up with an answer.
As Ever,
Ruth Ifcher
--
> Sonic,
>
> How would one say "This is the German language Wikipedia" in German?
>
> I can make all of these point to the same place, but we will still
> want one of them to be 'canonical'.
>
>
> Larry Sanger wrote:
>
> > From: Sonic <sonic(a)arcormail.de>
> > To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com
> > Subject: Re: [Deutsch-L]Deutsch Wikipedia
> > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:42 +0100
> > Reply-To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com
> >
> > Larry Sanger schrieb:
> >
> > > Please see
> > > http://deutsche.wikipedia.com/
> > >
> > > Should this be
> > > deutsche.wikipedia.com or
> > > deutsch.wikipedia.com ?
> > >
> > > The latter, I thought. Oder?
> >
> > either the latter or simply de.wikipedia.com (which is the ccTLD and
> > used for
> > many German divisions of international sites (like de.yahoo.com)). Both
> > versions sound funny, because deutsche implies a female gender while
> > Wikipedia is no German word and thus has no gender (of course you could
> > create one, but it still sounds strange), while "deutsch" has no
> > grammatical
> > relation to "Wikipedia" at all (in German, two nouns cannot be placed
> > next to
> > each other).
> >
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > A.f.
> >
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