User talk:Larry Sanger
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Hi Larry, we are translating the talk at the spanish wikipedia. We have several more contributors now, and I think we could reach the 1000 articles in a few months (or maybe weeks). --AstroNomer
Hey, Larry. Not wanting to feed the trolls, I'm not responding to any of 24's banalities, but I did want to drop a message of support for you, since 24's gotten a bit rude to you personally (as is, of course, the nature of trolls and kooks both). My private hypothesis is that (a) he envies the respect you have here, and (b) he wants to "lead" Wikipedia and turn it to his own visions, and is upset because you've been much more of a leader and your vision (and Jimbo's) are the driving force of Wikipedia. :) -- April
Thanks, April! I agree with your analysis; I just posted something on the subject of trolls and trolling (though not with any special application to 24) on Wikipedia-L. --Larry Sanger
Larry, you have my support to revert any changes and delete any new pages that 24 makes. --Chuck Smith
Hi Chuck, and thanks. But please don't wait for me to do it, because I was just thinking that after this most recent Wikipedia-L post, I was done doing all the damage control I had planned on doing. I have to get back to doing what I was doing in my life outside Wikipedia. :-) --Larry Sanger'
Life outside Wikipedia... what's that? Oh yeah... j/k :-) --Chuck Smith
Notwithstanding the groupie-like adoration of the above, which does much to discredit Sanger's views and motivations, Larry Sanger's contribution to the meta site is important enough to warrant a link to his writing being on the main page. I do not support the wholesale removal of everything that he wrote from that page - even if it's obsolete now.
Hi, my nick-name is Ettorre, but my name is Gregorio, lives in Genoa and I would be very happy as all the Italian wikipedians if you came to the meeting in Genoa. It forgives my English, but I am not a god in to speak it.
Hi Larry, I very much enjoyed your columns on subpages. I find it very interesting that Google made the same decision regarding the use of folders for email that wikipidians have made for sub-pages and using topics and sub-topics. Basically I think there is great wisdom in including everything at the general level (unless the use of subpages is needed to control the organization of a topic [like your example of poker]) and then allow labels and searching and linking to identify the relationships between things. This allows the comptuer to do what it does best - sort and manage large volumes of information - so that we don't have to. Google does the same thing by allowing you to label emails for organization puproses but does not limit you to that organization - unlike outlook where if I drop an email into the wrong folder I have trouble finding it later, or if I forget to label (opps - drop it into a folder) I have to search my archive.
Just wondering if you had made the connection between having all articles be on equal footing and Google's treatment of email similarly - there are similar comparisons for their delete or archive paradigm and the Candidates for speedy deletion etc.
Jim
[edit] NPOV Draft
Hi Larry,
I would like to begin making suggestions for your updated draft, but was unsure how you would prefer them done. I will assume on the discussion page, but let me know if you have a different preference. Additionally, I really like the idea. I hope only to add some precision to a great idea.
- Dmarney 06:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikimedia Merchandise
Is that Wikimedia Merchandise secure? Please answer on my talk page. --Marshall Williams2 01:43, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Harumph. Why were you so, so, hostile towards this page? --121.7.203.206 12:58, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
