[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[Anthony]

Speaking of Hector, can someone translate this for me: "¿Habéis pensado en
diseñar un Wiki específico para el trabajo de pulir los módulos-entradas?.
Muchos proyectos de Software están considerando aprovechar la dinámica
"Document-mode" de los Wikis como una alternativa a las "message boards" que
permite una documentación persistente, no repetitiva e hipertextualmente
articulada de los temas que se van tratando a petición de los usuarios."  It
was written by Álvaro Tejero Cantero on December 24, 2000, just a week
before the conversation at the taco stand.  I can't figure out if it's
talking about software, or if it's talking about...well...Wikipedia.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Probably March 2001 would be the earliest slashdotting:
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244
>
> And right at the end it says:
>
> Hector, who started the 'gnupedia' project recently wrote this on his
> mailing list:
>
> "Now, the FSF's plans are give all the support to the Nupedia project.
> So Nupedia will become the official GNU encyclopedia."
>
> -0) "Nupedia seems to be too centralized and slow moving for me. I
> understand the need for quality control, but wouldn't it make more
> sense to have a more bazaar-type free encyclopedia project?"
>
> Maybe so! People who want to get started _today_ on contributing free
> texts to the world can do so at Wikipedia. All the content is released
> under the GNU FDL, and it already has over 1000 articles. Short, and
> maybe not the high quality of Nupedia, but with time? Who knows..."
>
> On 13/04/2009, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> > What really made Wikipedia was free publicity from Slashdot and The New
> > York Times during 2001. I don't know if I could find the initial
> > Slashdoting, but here are the links to the two New York Times articles:
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/fact-driven-collegial-this-site-wants-you.html
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/the-year-in-ideas-a-to-z-populist-editing.html
> >
> > So I would say at least some of the credit goes to folks who recognized a
> > good idea and alerted the rest of the intellectual and internet community
> > to it.
> >
> > Fred Bauder
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
> imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect
> world would be pretty ghastly though.
>
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