Time for a little quiz.
Q. Who started Wikipedia?
a. Howard Rheingold b. Jimmy Wales c. Lyndon LaRouche d. Larry Sanger
If you answered c, you too could work on the student newspaper at Ohio State University! I guess the true nature of the Wikipedia cabal has been revealed. Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up:
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Sh...
Now the Howard Rheingold mistake, made recently by the International Herald Tribune, I can vaguely understand. But this is so bizarre I can't even fathom how they came up with it. Not even the most diehard LaRouche activist has the imagination for this. I even spent some time googling to see if this claim was being made anywhere that they might have picked it up, and found nothing. Considering that Larry Sanger now teaches at Ohio State, the situation is even more surreal.
Save your breath when it comes to flaming these poor souls, though, I've already politely informed them of their mistake.
--Michael Snow
We should start cataloging these. How about [[Apocraphyl tales of Wikipedia's history]]? :)
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:55:29 -0700, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Time for a little quiz.
Q. Who started Wikipedia?
a. Howard Rheingold b. Jimmy Wales c. Lyndon LaRouche d. Larry Sanger
If you answered c, you too could work on the student newspaper at Ohio State University! I guess the true nature of the Wikipedia cabal has been revealed. Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up:
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Sh...
Now the Howard Rheingold mistake, made recently by the International Herald Tribune, I can vaguely understand. But this is so bizarre I can't even fathom how they came up with it. Not even the most diehard LaRouche activist has the imagination for this. I even spent some time googling to see if this claim was being made anywhere that they might have picked it up, and found nothing. Considering that Larry Sanger now teaches at Ohio State, the situation is even more surreal.
Save your breath when it comes to flaming these poor souls, though, I've already politely informed them of their mistake.
--Michael Snow
Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
woah woah woah wait... Wikipedia wasn't founded by Madonna!?
--node
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:55:29 -0700, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Time for a little quiz.
Q. Who started Wikipedia?
a. Howard Rheingold b. Jimmy Wales c. Lyndon LaRouche d. Larry Sanger
If you answered c, you too could work on the student newspaper at Ohio State University! I guess the true nature of the Wikipedia cabal has been revealed. Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up:
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Sh...
Now the Howard Rheingold mistake, made recently by the International Herald Tribune, I can vaguely understand. But this is so bizarre I can't even fathom how they came up with it. Not even the most diehard LaRouche activist has the imagination for this. I even spent some time googling to see if this claim was being made anywhere that they might have picked it up, and found nothing. Considering that Larry Sanger now teaches at Ohio State, the situation is even more surreal.
Save your breath when it comes to flaming these poor souls, though, I've already politely informed them of their mistake.
--Michael Snow
Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Michael Snow wrote:
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Sh...
In case they update the story, I wanted to preserve it in the logs for posterity, it's just too funny...
"LaRouche, an outspoken political activist, set the record for consecutive attempts at the presidency by running eight times. He started Wikipedia.com, a Web site functioning as both a free encyclopedia and a wiki community, which allows users to add information to posted articles. He is known to be a promoter of conspiracy theories and has frequently been accused of being a fascist and an anti-Semite - claims he has denied."
Now you see, I've heard some interesting things before, but this one is very perplexing. I've had a hostile inquiry as to whether we're funded by Rev. Moon before, but this was from someone mad at Ed Poor, so at least I understood it. I haven't heard Scientology yet, but expect it, since they have worldwide headquarters not far from my house.
But LaRouche?
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 05:32:48 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Sh...
In case they update the story, I wanted to preserve it in the logs for posterity, it's just too funny...
Funny, but in a slightly worrying way: given that it comes in the middle of what is essentially a list of reasons this man [who, by the way, I've never heard of, being British, but anyway] is a bit of a crackpot, one has to wonder what the writer thought they were referring to here. Perhaps somebody fed them the line as a joke, to see if they'd include it without knowing what they were talking about? He sure sounds like an odd fellow, so maybe the writer just thought "an encyclopedia that anyone can edit? That sounds like a rather stupid idea, it must be his..."
BTW, I like the description of this guy's father on an official biography as a "technologist and internationally active consultant in the footwear industry". How, um, glamourous... :D
<geek>And what's with the "one page view, and then you have to register; or you could just block our cookies" thing on that site?</geek>
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