something that remains always underrepresented in articles about wikipedia:
we are WORLD CHAMPION in [[side tracking]]!
2010/6/8 Steven Walling
> Okay, okay. Didn't mean to start a discussion about the nature of the
> Catholic Church. Just meant that it's not what most people think of when
> you
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 22:29, Utkarshraj Atmaram wrote:
> Remember, Sam Vaknin is a Ph.D., so he cannot be wrong.
Probably has a Bachelor in Science, too.
~A
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Amory Meltzer wrote:
> With the exception of the first two numbers, nothing there is wholly
> or remotely true.
*Everything* about Wikipedia in the article is 100% true. It is based
on an interview that noted scholar Sam Vaknin had granted to the
author Daniel Tyna
We've already established we drink beer, not Kool Aid.
/joke
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> Okay,
Okay, okay. Didn't mean to start a discussion about the nature of the
Catholic Church. Just meant that it's not what most people think of when you
say cult. They think of "drink the Kool-Aid", so on and so forth.
Steven Walling
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Dear
Hoi,
Dear Teun, I grew up in the mother church. When asked we would say that we
were catholic. From inside the church there is no credible outside because
they are not part of our community. As a little boy we did not play with the
kids of the public primary school (their school was in front of our
The Catholic church is not identical to the Roman Catholic church, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_%28disambiguation%29
live long and prosper,
Teun Spaans
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> The Catholic church is not the same as the Vatican. It is n
Hoi,
The Catholic church is not the same as the Vatican. It is not even the
hierarchy of the Vatican. It is only the head office. Given the large amount
of elderly men, guarded by beautifully dressed highly dedicated Swiss young
men, given that they are a law onto themselves, they easily qualify.
T
In a message dated 6/8/2010 12:04:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
cimonav...@gmail.com writes:
> > "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
> > Vatican look like a coffee clatch. This seemingly informal
> > encyclopedia that anyone can edit is in fact a wiki-ocracy whe
Milos Rancic wrote:
> >From [1]:
>
> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
> Vatican look like a coffee clatch. This seemingly informal
> encyclopedia that anyone can edit is in fact a wiki-ocracy where
> self-anointed experts vie for control."
>
Oh man, I like
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Amory Meltzer wrote:
> Good?
>
> "Though the Wikipedia has more than 12 million registered users, its
> inner core consists of roughly 1,700 administrators who possess the
> ability to reject edits, lock down pages from further editing, and
> deem entire entries unw
Steven Walling wrote:
> "Wikipedia makes the Vatican look like a coffee clatch"
>
> They're saying we're so cliquish that we make the Vatican look like a casual
> coffee work party, not that we are one. Still a mixed metaphor though,
> considering the Catholic Church hardly meets the definition of
Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>
>>> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
>>> Vatican look like a coffee clatch.
>>>
>> I don't think you become one of the top ten websites in the world,
>> raise millions of dollar
"Wikipedia makes the Vatican look like a coffee clatch"
They're saying we're so cliquish that we make the Vatican look like a casual
coffee work party, not that we are one. Still a mixed metaphor though,
considering the Catholic Church hardly meets the definition of a cult.
Steven Walling
On Tue
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
>> Vatican look like a coffee clatch.
>
> I don't think you become one of the top ten websites in the world,
> raise millions of dollars each year, by drinking caffeine and
>
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Amory Meltzer wrote:
> Good?
>
> "Though the Wikipedia has more than 12 million registered users, its
> inner core consists of roughly 1,700 administrators who possess the
> ability to reject edits, lock down pages from further editing, and
> deem entire entries unw
Of course we don't. As far as I learn from my Wikimania participation,
Wikipedian's preferences go rather to beer, not dull caffeine.
/me ducks
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
>> Vatican look like a coff
> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
> Vatican look like a coffee clatch.
I had zero idea what a "coffee clatch" was or is. Google tells me it
should probably be "klatch".
And it is "A casual social gathering for coffee and conversation".
Well, I could only ag
Good?
"Though the Wikipedia has more than 12 million registered users, its
inner core consists of roughly 1,700 administrators who possess the
ability to reject edits, lock down pages from further editing, and
deem entire entries unworthy. But the real power lies in the
Wikipedian equivalent of th
>From [1]:
"For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
Vatican look like a coffee clatch. This seemingly informal
encyclopedia that anyone can edit is in fact a wiki-ocracy where
self-anointed experts vie for control."
Some numbers are not quite correct, but this is goo
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