[WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source)

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A BusStop?

Wow:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TourBusStop
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TourBusStop

That's so... nice.

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I heard of WP, as of early 2003 I suppose, on MeatBall Wiki. This sort
> of thing: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?EnglishWikipedia. Wow,
> they deleted 100 pages a day. With their bare hands. StephenGilbert
> talking about an IP number vandal, I do recall. I was on Meatball
> because a BusStop had been placed on Sensei's Library, the go wiki,
> where I was busy at the time. So that, folks, is how I flew the Atlantic
> to WP. Actually I wasn't that attracted immediately by the concept.
>
> Charles
>
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