[WikiEN-l] Challenge: explain NPOV in a sentence.

Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 13:54:37 UTC 2006


On 8/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> The press concentrate on the wiki method and editability as the most
> amazing thing about Wikipedia.
>
> But I think NPOV is possibly a more important innovation. Other
> sources aim to explain the view they hold or to be authoritative; NPOV
> describes the views and has whatever authority that confers.
>
> I'm sorely lacking in snappy quotes, though. I ask your assistance:
> Explain NPOV in a sentence.

Maybe this joke only works in a society where the original quote is
familiar to a wider audience. Besides this, how about this alteration:

"The communists have only tried to change the world, in various ways;
the point is to describe it"

Just a thought,
Mathias



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