Tiddly, Pop, pop, pop!
Tiddly, pop, pop, pop.
Wikipedia will never stop!
It cranks out new articles, fixes the old.
You can make text in Vetalics or bold.
With three hundred million or more edits on the whole site,
It will turn a guy's face blue, red or white.
Now no one on the mailing list has see
Hi I am interested please forward me mre details.
Regards
Rebecca
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From: foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:04
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> All: I still think we need an announcements list, so people who are
> curious about Wikimedia goings-on don't have to put up with f-l !
That's a good idea. It could be synchronized with an announcements
page on each wiki, since a lot of edi
:) Thanks Philippe. And yes, the WMF is getting a cut of the royalties
from "How Wikipedia Works", though at this point it's a pretty small
check. Apparently books about Wikipedia are something of a niche
market ;)
John: your confusion is understandable, as foundation-l is often noisy
(though less
The delightful authors of "How Wikipedia Works" are some of our very
brightest and best. It's a fantastic book, to which I refer people
regularly.
They include, by the way, the lovely and talented Phoebe.
pb
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikime
Phoebe, thank you! I want to help but have been watching the emails in
this forum in stupid silence for weeks now, not knowing how the whole
thing was put together, or what anyone's role was.
I just ordered How Wikipedia Works. I hope the foundation is getting a
cut.
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Hi Tyler!
The history of wikis is pretty well documented here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis
And the history of Wikipedia and how it came to be is analyzed in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia, and also at length
in the book "The Wikipedia Revolution", by Andrew Li
