[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales at wikia.com
Wed Mar 9 18:24:06 UTC 2005


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 11:16 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
> 
> > PhDs are valuable evidence of that, and attracting and
> > retraining academic specialists is a valid goal.
> 
> I hope you mean "retaining" and not "retraining" here, Jimbo. B-)

*laugh* This is one of the best typos I have ever seen.  The beauty of
it is that it appears to subtly undermine my entire position.

"Sure, we respect academics, at least enough to retrain them..."

No, I meant 'retain'.  Sorry about that. :-)

--Jimbo



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