On 8/26/06, niht-hræfn <nihthraefn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 25, 2006, at 9:53, Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
I've always liked "Wikipedia - the
people's encyclopedia"
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Wikipedia is to information what democracy once was to government: of
the people, for the people, by the people.
Exactly! I realise that people might associate it with a certain
Peoples republic (ironic, since said People's Republic are blocking
us), But I really do think it describes us fairly well.
And by the way, when did "people" become one of those loaded, Newspeak
words, that cannot be used without making a reference to something
else. You know like communist, socialist, terrorist, freedom, liberal,
etc. Maybe a better slogan would be "Wikipedia - The encyclopedia for
the masses" or "Wikipedia - The encyclopedia for the rest of us". If
we're going down that path maybe we should just fess up and call it "I
can't believe it's not Britannica!" and post a picture of an "<-
I'm
with stupid!" T-shirt on our frontpage.
Yeah, I guess, "Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia" is a pretty good
slogan. How about we just remove the "that anyone can edit" part? That
seems like a good solution to me...
--Oskar