[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] "How Wikipedia Works" published

[Charles Matthews]

"Elias Friedman" wrote

> Date: 2008/09/22 Mon PM 07:40:56 BST
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] "How Wikipedia Works" published
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On the contrary! I expect our gripping tale of wikimystery will appeal
> > to all. Was it: arsenic in the AfDs? Perhaps a candlestick over the
> > head in the community portal? Or quite possibly the butler did it ...
> > everyone thought he was just a simple wikignome; little did they know
> > an RfA would prove his downfall.
> >
> > Please look for the GFDL-licensed mass-market followups, "Murder on
> > the Wiki Express" and "Editing on the Nile." And a sequel, "Jimbo
> > Investigates", is in the works...
> >
> >
> This could be fun, Wikipedia themed fractured titles...

"The Revert of the Pink Panther", starring a well-meaning if bumbling admin named Cluestick, happier at DRV, rashly assigned to investigate illicit mirrors who are stealing Wikipedia material in the middle of the night and posting it with taunting messages rather than the GFDL. Cluestick drives his boss, played by Herbert Arbcom, up the wall ...

Charles 

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