On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:47:02PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:55:17PM +0100, Timwi
wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
My impression is that it's aimed at
"everybody" -- which includes me.
It is definitely not aimed at _pleasing_ everybody, especially not
minorities like programmers.
Hopefully it's not aimed at disenfranchising "minorities", either --
especially since minorities like programmers aren't as much of a
minority at Wikipedia as they are at, say, the Coopersmith's bar
downtown.
Yeah, so let's design MediaWiki so it's useful only to the programmers,
since no-one else would be helpful in writing the encyclopedia anyway.
Especially since programmers know everything.
This thread has gotten so dense that I can no longer discern what the
topic is, much less who's on which side. If anyone sees fit to
continue it, I suggest they start by enumerating those two things.
Cheers,
-- jra
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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