Geoffrey Burling wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz
wrote:
There's no guarantee that a proportion of
articles slip form the RC and
plunge into the Wikipedia's great information soup.
This is an observation from perusing the ancient pages list.
Are you talking about pages with content about Ancient History, or
pages that have been part of Wikipedia for so long that one could
call them ``ancient"?
I think he means the pages that haven't been touched for a
long time.
Leave them alone long enough and they *could* become ancient
history in the other sense ("Many scholars consider Lir and Michael
to be the same person; although the internal evidence is sometimes
contradictory, much of the change history was lost in the database
crash of 2043, and the one surviving backup on CD (in the Vatican
Library, #3483334) is partially oxidized and has too many bit
errors to be relied upon.")
:-)
See also Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz" which established that
fallout shelters were built as places where the fallouts could seek
refuge during the collapse of civilization.
Ec