Please, no more.
I'm finding it harder and harder to find _wikipedia_ signal on this list, because of all of the _political_ noise. Let's please just all absolutely refuse to discuss matters of a general political nature, and stick specifically to wikipedia.
--Jimbo
Ok. I offer the following:
1. I invite people who are interested in a meaningful and non-acerbic political discussion as regards these issues to drop me a line on my talk page:
2. If people prefer they may email me at < ropers 4t ropersonline d0+ com >.
I really invite all whose point was to honestly argue their case to join me. Those who only wanted to vent in public, yet seek to evade any possible challenge to their views -- well, they probably won't join.
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com
On 26 Sep 2004, at 21:29, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Please, no more.
I'm finding it harder and harder to find _wikipedia_ signal on this list, because of all of the _political_ noise. Let's please just all absolutely refuse to discuss matters of a general political nature, and stick specifically to wikipedia.
--Jimbo
On Sep 26, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Stirling Newberry wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Sharing-Knowledge- Online.html
Registration required. Can you provide a link from a non-evil source please?
Can you imagine if we required Wikipedia *readers* to provide their gender, age, zip code, household income range, industry, job title, and job function?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
This should work: http://tinyurl.com/3vqlr (AP.org's "distributed" search is a pain, IMHO. I'm just saying.)
On 27 Sep 2004, at 01:48, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Sep 26, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Stirling Newberry wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Sharing-Knowledge- Online.html
Registration required. Can you provide a link from a non-evil source please?
Can you imagine if we required Wikipedia *readers* to provide their gender, age, zip code, household income range, industry, job title, and job function?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Austin,
What part of "CHINA FLAMEWAR OFFICIALLY CANCELLED" do you not understand?!?
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com
On 27 Sep 2004, at 23:25, Austin Hair wrote:
Look back on history, though China had the most powerful navy and army since the 10th century, we did not want to conquer the whole world. Only the whites would go all around the world robbing and killing.
I'm not Chinese. Not remotely so. I do, however, know for a fact that China was practicing an active policy of imperialism until fairly recently in modern history. The emperor (take note of the term) fancied himself sovereign of a global dominion which included Europe, as dynastic literature tells us, and with the exception of a brief period of isolation during the 16th and 17th centuries China was as imperialist as they come.
Prosperity of China is indeed great. At least we would not turn into another superpower that invades another country thousands of miles away.
Perhaps because you're too busy oppressing your own people.
-- Austin D. Hair austin@austinhair.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Callidus http://www.austinhair.org/
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