[Wikipedia-l] Campaigns Wikia

Sat Jul 15 08:27:09 UTC 2006

On Jul 14, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
> 2006/7/14, Ronald Chmara <ron at opus1.com>:
>> On Jul 10, 2006, at 9:47 PM, rose.parks at att.net wrote:
>>> Thank you, Andre.
>>>      The message I posted was purposely written with the intention of
>>> saying nothing either positive or negative. And, the main reason for
>>> that is that I am not familiar with the site and have formed no
>>> opinions about it.
>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: "Andre Engels" <andreengels at gmail.com>
>>>> 2006/7/10, PaweÅ‚ Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org>:
>>>>>> If you have not visited the site yet, be prepared for Google Ads,
>>>>>> POV entries, and - oh yes - an occassional Wikipedian.
>>>>>> Apologies if this is old news...
>>>>> So? It's not a Wikimedia project, but a private wiki. Not every 
>>>>> wiki
>>>>> has to be NPOV and without ads (and wikia is a commercial wiki
>>>>> provider, so they're bound to have ads).
>>>> So? So nothing. Ruth is just warning people who expect to get to 
>>>> some
>>>> kind of Wikipedia as to what to actually expect.
>> If I go to google.com, I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to wiki.org I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to twiki.org I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to emacswiki.org I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to pbwiki.com I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to wiki.x.org I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> If I go to wikia.com I do not expect the wikipedia.
>> Wiki != wikipedia. (NOT(!) equal to (=) wikipedia, for those  who 
>> don't
>> know this code syntax)
>> I have no idea why andre thinks  he knows "what to actually expect"
>> from yet another wiki idea... Looks like after viewing the 708 million
>> hits on google for 'wiki', he has concluded that 1,500 wikis out of
>> 708,000,000 hits determine the future of wikipedia.
> What are you talking about? Why are you twisting my and other people's
> words? What the fuck is going on here?

Ruth talked about wikia.com.... and then talked about it as if it was 
wikipedia.com. She was twisting dns names, as if "wiki" meant 
wikipedia, which wiki certainly does not mean. Wiki means "quick", and 
in pacific language families, wikiwiki (a quick version of quick) is 
very quick.

Your statement: "who expect to get to some..." based on bizarre dns 
names is more FUD, slamming any dns entry that has wiki in the name.

> If this is things work, it's the last time I explain something on this 
> list.
> I'm angry.

Taking a ball and going home is not very productive. Feel free to do 
so, however, if you cannot collaborate, in a positive way, with the 
millions of software developers on the 'net who are just trying to Do 
The Right Thing(tm)'

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