[Air-l] Apology Re: editing wikipedia

Peter Timusk ptimusk at sympatico.ca
Sat Mar 17 06:36:28 PDT 2007


I would like to apologize for suggesting that the founder of  
Wikipedia is or was involved in pornography. I have no evidence of  
this and was only asking a question in a scholarly context. Perhaps  
my abilities at scholarship are not the greatest.

Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Junior Statistical Clerk Statistics Canada
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007).
just trying to stay linear.
Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.




On 27-Feb-07, at 7:26 AM, Peter Timusk wrote:

>
> Is the founder of Wikipedia a porno capitalist? Did this fellow get  
> rich with internet pornography?
>
>
> Peter Timusk,
> B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton  
> University
> Junior Statistical Clerk Statistics Canada
> Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007).
> just trying to stay linear.
> Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
>
>
>
>
> On 27-Feb-07, at 5:28 AM, Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>> However, I do agree that editing procedures are cumbersome once  
>> you want
>> to put in formatting, references, etc. Moreover, it's hard (for  
>> me) to
>> find the guides for what to do, and when I do, the guides (as for
>> Referencing) are not as clearly written as I'd like. We need  
>> _Wikipedia
>> for Dummies_!
>




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