[WikiEN-l] [[New anti-Semitism]] and violations of NPOV re: top image

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 26/08/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/25/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I think NPOV is pretty innovative.
> 
>> Agreed... and publicly accessible revision controlled webpages.
> 
> 
> That was Ward Cunningham's ;-) (Did his do version control?)
> 

Heck, even ours doesn't properly do version control. You can't branch,
tag, ...

Hrm. Anyone want to re-implement MediaWiki with a /real/ version control
back end?

> 
>> Wanna take bets on which of the two will have a greater influence on
>> the world outside wikipedia a decade from now? :)
> 
> 
> I think NPOV is more powerful than is usually appreciated. To harp on
> slightly, it's quite the powerful innovation in writing about
> Scientology, for example.
> 

I wonder, what has made Wikipedia so popular? That we're NPOV, or that
we're a wiki? For some reason, people seem to think that "Wikipedia" is
a generic term to describe a wiki ("They have their own Wikipedia"), or
that "Wiki" is our name ("Please let me post this on Wiki"), or something...

-- 
Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax
Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
"We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales
Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 569 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/attachments/20060826/04b3b767/attachment.pgp