I just discovered wikipedia the other day and I'm just thrilled that this thing exists. I authored the drug testing faq, and it's probably about 5 years old now because I don't have time to maintain this monster of a document. I've been planning to write software that does almost exactly what Wikipedia does so that others could maintain it. Now I don't have to!
To get to my question, would it be appropriate for me to post the drug testing faq? I have the feeling that too much controversy might not be appreciated here, but then the faq is pretty objective and factual. It discusses methods that work and don't work for beating the test, and it covers details on how tests are administered.
There may be some points where my anti-drug testing bias comes out, but I'm thinking I could comb through the text and edit that out before posting it. I pretty much isolated my opinions in the 'Ethics' section of the faq.
I know I read somewhere that dramatic changes to wikipedia are discouraged, so I only plan to post small pieces at a time as I edit them.
Also, I just caught the end of a discussion on vikipedia (whatever that is) and other languages. Some people have already translated the drug testing faq into other languages. I could track those down and post them as well, but I can't read them, so any edits that I make on the english version will be disjoint from the other languages.
Is wikipedia the right place for me to post the faq, or is there another *pedia that would be better suited?
mindfuq@comcast.net writes:
Is wikipedia the right place for me to post the faq, or is there another *pedia that would be better suited?
Could you post an URL where this FAQ can be found?
However, if it contains useful information, presented in a neutral way, and is of encyclopedical value, I see no reason against posting it.
greetings, elian
* elian elian@gmx.li [2003-02-05 11:43]:
mindfuq@comcast.net writes:
Is wikipedia the right place for me to post the faq, or is there another *pedia that would be better suited?
Could you post an URL where this FAQ can be found?
mindfuq@comcast.net writes:
Is wikipedia the right place for me to post the faq, or is there another *pedia that would be better suited?
It would need some adjustements towards NPOV but I would very much like to see the informations given there incorporated in Wikipedia.
I think we had already a similar case in the surveillance article which was also taken from some external FAQ.
greetings, elian
At 11:09 AM 2/5/03 +0000, mindfuq wrote:
I just discovered wikipedia the other day and I'm just thrilled that this thing exists. I authored the drug testing faq, and it's probably about 5 years old now because I don't have time to maintain this monster of a document. I've been planning to write software that does almost exactly what Wikipedia does so that others could maintain it. Now I don't have to!
To get to my question, would it be appropriate for me to post the drug testing faq? I have the feeling that too much controversy might not be appreciated here, but then the faq is pretty objective and factual. It discusses methods that work and don't work for beating the test, and it covers details on how tests are administered.
Are you willing to release the material under the GFDL (a free software license for documentation)? And are you prepared to have it edited and changed by everyone and her brother-in-law?
If so, it seems like a reasonable addition, possibly linked to existing material on drug testing or recreational drugs.
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