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Re: Langmaker and FrathWiki (was Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources)

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Friday, February 29, 2008, 20:24
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Rick Harrison <rick@...> wrote:
> LangMaker and the projects on FrathWiki are interesting and valuable because they are > funky individualistic neighborhoods.
And I guess that's where we fundamentally disagree. For me, LangMaker, FrathWiki, et al are interesting *exactly* to the degree that they provide interesting information - i.e. the content / functionality rather than the site per se. And by extension, it's valuable only inasmuch as it is accessible. Thus from my POV, improving this content / functionality directly improves its value. Whereas you assign (primary?) value simply to its existence in its historical *form*, which to me is completely irrelevant. I respect those who have done that work before, and I want to preserve their *functional* contributions (i.e. the information), but I do not value the *form* thereof at all. (And even feel that if preserving the form means it languishing unread or unused, it's being done a disservice.) This is a pretty old form / function, tradition / improvement dichotomy. Let's please at least acknowledge it for what it is politely, and not engage in reductio ad hitl^H^H^H^Hwalmartium. ;-) Remember, valuations are axiomatic, and engaging in a conversation without agreeing on axioms (whether they be definitions or valuations or whatever) is never effective. - Sai

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