The Phoenix will surely rise again. How soon? Time will tell.
- White_Cat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, just profoundly sad that Wikipedia is in what
seems to be an inexorable
decline. But idea-based projects generally have about seven years of
innovation before they lose steam (see SRI, Xerox PARC, GNU, Apple).
Perhaps
Wikipedia will enjoy a rebirth, but I expect its natural successor to
emerge
under a different umbrella. Fortunately, the important thing for posterity
is that Wikipedia's core assets are under a free license.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
You high or something?
- White Cat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:36 PM, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Long live deletionism!
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia(a)zog.org
wrote:
> 2009/1/13 Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
>
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <
wikipedia(a)zog.org
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Anyone any idea where I could find the original AfD? It seems to
have
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/T…
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/T…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/T…
> >
> > The edit summary just says "oops".
>
> The deletion log helps in cases like this:
>
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3A…
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3A…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Wikipedia%3A…
> >
> > >
> > > "OTRS Courtesy blank"
> > >
> > > What probably happened is that someone who was unhappy with some of
> > > the things said in the heat of the moment e-mailed the Wikipedia
OTRS
> service and asked for a courtesy deletion.
The entire discussion needed to be deleted, apparently. The page now
reads
> "The result was *delete*." with the rest of the deletion summary in
html
comment.
I'm officially weirded out. :)
Michel
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