Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 20, 2006, 06:00:49 PM
But I sure hope they come up with a better name, that one doesn't exactly roll off the tounge.
<More info on the project> Maybe we will have less trouble getting TS info on there?
The html doesn't impress me. Can anyone explain why that page should be in a table?!
Stoopid! And this is supposed to be a project of the internet age?
Post by: susato on October 21, 2006, 10:51:05 PM
The advantage of the Citizendium is supposed to be editorial oversight and expert arbitration of vexed questions. I question where they are going to get the experts for free - but Wikipedia does (even though they are anonymous) so perhaps it's possible.
My main beef with the project is that it's going to start out with an exact copy of the Wikipedia and then allow their copy to evolve in a different direction. That seems absolutely unfair to me. OK, the creative commons license makes it legal, but is it right?
I live in a rather nice house. But someone else could have a nicer house for only 10% the cost of mine - IF they took my house away and used it as their starting point!
Post by: krissel on October 23, 2006, 04:50:42 AM
BTW, if there weren't 'forks' in the software world we would not have OS X.
Post by: tacit on October 23, 2006, 02:52:49 PM
In any event, this new project has been a long time coming. Wikipedia is a disaster. It's a shambles, rife with factual errors, poor writing, and inconsistency. It frankly alarms me how many people will accept Wikipedia articles as gospel, without doing any additional fact-checking; I have personally seen many egregious errors in Wikipedia entries, and the nature of the Internet means that the articles which stay put are not necessarily those which are most accurate, but rather those written by the most stubborn contributors.
Wikipedia's single greatest failing is the fact that it has no editor. Bringing an editor on board would do much to fix its many ills, weed out the most flagrant factual errors, and make the entries in general more readable and more uniform.
Post by: RHPConsult on October 23, 2006, 06:57:44 PM
Boom! and that was that, dontyasee.
Well, not exactly, there were a few "snotty" words returned, which presumably constituted an "appraisal" of our inadequate effort.
Post by: krissel on October 24, 2006, 02:12:46 AM
He had an improper use of a word even though his background claimed he was an English major.
Post by: sandbox on October 25, 2006, 07:46:53 PM
Post by: gunug on October 26, 2006, 10:27:06 AM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 26, 2006, 04:06:58 PM
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an "X" in front of you Avatar name?
I'm happily grumpy! 
BTW, just so you won't be thought of as a ludite, the "X" is actually infront of my old 'screen name'. Most 'Avatars' don't have 'names'. Just hang in there, all this high tech stuff is hard at first, but one day, I can see you maintaining a whole network of PCs and Macs! I have faith in your inate abilities!
Post by: gunug on October 27, 2006, 08:54:07 AM
You know what I meant!
Post by: MamaMoose on October 28, 2006, 12:31:29 AM
MamaMoose
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 28, 2006, 11:37:47 AM
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the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem
Is that the one where a random sampling of Nyquil bottles from the shelves of several pharmacies near Shannon, Ireland was discovered in a tomb in Egypt recently?! BTW, have you tried Ask.com? ( Used to be Asl Jeeves, I think... )