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Dear Michael H,
thanks a lot for all this work!
I could certainly add something to the wiki page you created. But now I am getting curious about how other people will describe what we have here.
I find it already very interesting that the first name publically associated with the nLab is apparently “John Baez”.
I could certainly add something to the wiki page you created.
I guess we all could, but isn’t that somewhat against the wikipedia ethos? I thought one wasn’t supposed to write about something one actually knew something about! (sorry)
More seriously, I know that I wouldn’t really know what someone from outside the nLab would expect to learn from the wikipedia page. As you know more about wikipedia than at least I do, maybe you could help us on that. Or if you’re planning on working on it a bit more (I don’t wish to presume), you could ask us questions here and then decide how to interpret what we say into something useful over there.
You’re not supposed to write things in Wikipedia that are promotional, and you’re supposed to back them up from secondary sources. See Wikipedia:Verifiability.
There are some other rules besides verifiability and neutrality, but they’re silly ones.
A page about the nLab without mentioning Urs is not a page about the nLab.
Sorry if that was curt. I was running out the door. I have never had a good experience with editing wikipedia, i.e. no matter how sensible whatever I wrote was immediately deleted. I’ll pass :)
It was many years ago. It was a pretty innocuous addition, but was almost immediately removed. It turned me off so badly, I never returned :)
Could be :)
By the way, welcome to the n-Neighborhood :)
I’ve been SOOOOOO busy lately, my comments have been in 15 second spurts between tasks, but wanted to say I’m always happy to see someone new around here. Especially someone so experienced with wikis. The only thing I’d note (as if it wasn’t obvious) is that we intentionally/explicitly try NOT to be like wikipedia, e.g. see nPOV :)
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There are also rules against copyright violations, which cease to be silly if lawsuits are filed.
They are still silly as they are so extremely cautious that they will never move the boundary. Most of the changes in the basic US legislative system, e.g. the cease of segregation has occured within the lgeal system after there was pressure and activism on the street. If one does not touch boundaries boundaries will never be moved and the present copyright system is obsolete to absurdity, especially in science. For example, people who own LP records (plastic sheets) with certain music song, when the technology changes and CDs come has to rebuy the same song again, and is not entitled to move the technological medium. Sometimes one owns 3-4 technologies with bought rights for the same thing. Next we pay certain tax on all media which goes to record companies on the basis that some people pirate music, even if we use the media to record our own data. So people who makes their own pictures and store them to CDs pay royalties just because the democracy in congresses is compromised by the legalized corruption system which is called lobying. Loby groups are just a way to do legal corruption and they are used extensively by royalty owners.
Amen, brother.
@Zoran #16
+1
For example, people who own LP records (plastic sheets) with certain music song, when the technology changes and CDs come has to rebuy the same song again, and is not entitled to move the technological medium.
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