Sascha Noyes wrote:
There's an excellent article entitled "Open Source Everywhere" over at wired news: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html
From the article:
"and some areas [of Wikipedia] have been locked down - the front page, for instance, because, Wales says, "people kept putting giant penis pictures on there."
I haven't laughed so hard at work in a long time! But that whole section was very well-researched - it mentioned things that are in the yet-to-be-distributed press release (passing Britannica.com on Alexa) and other things that we have only talked about on the mailing list (Wikipedia 1.0 and certain quotes by Jimbo).
Did Jimbo interview for this, or is the author just a damn good researcher?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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Daniel Mayer wrote:
Sascha Noyes wrote:
There's an excellent article entitled "Open Source Everywhere" over at wired news: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html
From the article:
"and some areas [of Wikipedia] have been locked down - the front page, for instance, because, Wales says, "people kept putting giant penis pictures on there."
I haven't laughed so hard at work in a long time!
Me, too, espeically given my well-known concern about my mom coming to Wikipedia. :-) Should I let her read the article, ha ha?
Did Jimbo interview for this, or is the author just a damn good researcher?
Both! I was interviewed at length, but I could tell he knew his stuff already.
If he researched all of this from the mailing list, then he probably should have written "Wikipedians are planning to discuss how to move to a 1.0 version, as soon as they end their 37-month-long debate over the much more important and divisive issue of exactly what the logo should look like." :-)
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
If he researched all of this from the mailing list, then he probably should have written "Wikipedians are planning to discuss how to move to a 1.0 version, as soon as they end their 37-month-long debate over the much more important and divisive issue of exactly what the logo should look like." :-)
I believe the 1.0 version discussion is being pushed back until after the completion of the similarly important and divisive username debate. =]
-Mark
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