[Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

[Ziko van Dijk]

Don't worry, Marc, Superbass uses irony and is pro VE.
Ziko


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Ziko van Dijk
voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland
deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Association Council

Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
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2013/7/29 Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org>

> On 07/29/2013 03:30 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> > On German Wikipedia, our dear Superbass has contributed a short opinion
> > piece on the principal resistance against the Visual Editor. I think that
> > it should be withhold from you, and I hope that my translation transfers
> > its wit.
>
> My poor German suffices to estimate that your translation was "close
> enough", at least, but leaves one question open to my mind:  was this
> meant as satire or was this in earnest?
>
> Because if it's the latter, I'm really worried about the health of a
> community that would actively bemoan greater democratization of a
> project whose entire /raison d'etre/ was the democratization of knowledge.
>
> -- Marc
>
>
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