Heleen van der Klink on Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:48:18 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [nmma06] <nettime> shocklogs wikipedia entry |
Hi Felix, I disagree with what you just have said. Let me explain why. (BTW: I am a master of media, so I am in the middle of this discussion) The Dutch part of wikipedia is in the Dutch language only and our entry was, of course, in English. As a researcher, i would like to share this Dutch phenomenon with the rest of the world. That is because I would also like to read about specific blog genres in Iran or China. I find it interesting to share this knowledge with other people who might research (or are interested in) blogs, because it might be very valuable information to them. Therefore I do not want to hide it in the Dutch section of wikipedia that is only accessible to those who understand Dutch. I hope the English part of wikipedia is a place where foreign people can place entries (in english) with people and things that happen in their own country, so we can learn about these things and perhaps use it for our research, or just because we find them interesting. It would be ashame if these things would stay hidden in the country/ language specific areas of wikipedia. I'm just a believer of Vannevar Bush' idea that collective human knowledge should be available to anyone. Heleen van der Klink # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net