[Wikipedia-l] Re: Sanger's memoirs

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 20 06:06:14 UTC 2005



Lars Aronsson a écrit:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
>>I've only skimmed these posts, but they seem to boil down to historical
>>trivia ("we had 24 articles not 12!") and saying we should do things
> 
> 
> Actually the article is a lot better than that.  It's an important 
> piece of history in the writing.  I'm looking forward to the book.  
> Larry is very careful to point out that he is Wikipedia's friend 
> and I see no conflict.
> 
> He started it as a test, and it snowballed out of control. Nobody 
> could predict its popularity.  Larry to me seems like a hesitant 
> Martin Luther who says "wait, I didn't want to start a new church, 
> only reform the old one!"  But nobody wants to wait.

Yo, I personally added the link to the retro page on meta two days ago. 
I think it is an important part of our history. Pov yes, but interesting.

Ant






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