On 21/10/2007, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
I've only got one question, and its the only one that matters...
Has anyone read the thing? Is it correct? What happens if the manual contradicts Help pages or, God forbid, policy?
Well, my guess is that it does in some places - how on earth could it not when our own "Wikipedia" pages could be any random inconsistent decree at any given time even on the policy or "approved" pages.
I'd be curious to see if this book defines some of the common Wikipedia terms that someone else in this thread describes here as being newspeak (actually, I think the way Wikipedia treats words like "consensus" is worse than newspeak; it's not that the words are given another meaning or given a good/bad connotation - it's that they can mean anything that the people using them want them to).
Personally, I'm hoping the book finds its way into my Uni library! I don't have any problem with people charging money for their work, but I'd prefer not to pay :-) There - a more honest rationale than a lot of the "free" ideological stuff!
Zoney