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    From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to All on Wed Apr 3 09:42:31 2019
    On another note ... who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    It's at least 5 years out of date ...

    \%/@rd

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Ward Dossche on Wed Apr 3 20:46:07 2019
    On 03 Apr 2019 at 09:42a, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

    On another note ... who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    It's crowd sourced Ward, you or anyone can edit it, the trick is convincing sometimes rather zealous Wikipedia editors that your edits should be
    retained.

    Best, Paul

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  • From Sergey Zhukov@2:5025/75.45 to Ward Dossche on Wed Apr 3 11:04:10 2019
    Hello, Ward!

    April, 3d 2019 09:42, Ward Dossche -> All:

    who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    AFAIK anyone can try to edit any page on Wikipedia. You can make Fidonet-page up to date yourself. I guess nobody would reject editions made by Z2C.

    Best regards.
    Sergey.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Ward Dossche on Wed Apr 3 12:25:54 2019

    On 2019 Apr 03 09:42:30, you wrote to All:

    On another note ... who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    no one... that's evidenced by the edit history and the several edit battles that have taken place ;)

    It's at least 5 years out of date ...

    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Sergey Zhukov on Thu Apr 4 08:04:09 2019
    On 3/04/2019 18:04, Sergey Zhukov -> Ward Dossche wrote:

    who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    AFAIK anyone can try to edit any page on Wikipedia. You can make Fidonet-page up to date yourself. I guess nobody would reject editions made by Z2C.

    Do the Wikipedia boffins recognise that role?

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to mark lewis on Thu Apr 4 00:40:42 2019
    On another note ... who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    no one... that's evidenced by the edit history and the several edit battles that have taken place ;)

    It's at least 5 years out of date ...

    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

    True...

    My son does some editorial work for wikipedia...

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Janis Kracht on Thu Apr 4 07:40:20 2019

    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

    True...

    My son does some editorial work for wikipedia...

    I've done some adaptions at some point many many years ago only to see everything turned back by some troll. There also was a guy who produced some totally disgusting page about me and really had a bad time having that removed.

    \%/@rd

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ward Dossche on Thu Apr 4 12:22:52 2019
    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

    True...

    My son does some editorial work for wikipedia...

    I've done some adaptions at some point many many years ago only to see everything turned back by some troll. There also was a guy who produced some
    totally disgusting page about me and really had a bad time having that removed

    That's unfortunate. My son is one of the administrators. He likely could have helped remove that.

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  • From Sergey Zhukov@2:5025/75.45 to David Drummond on Sat Apr 6 02:35:12 2019
    Hello David,

    On April 4th, 2019 in 08:04 David Drummond wrote to Sergey Zhukov:

    I guess nobody would reject editions made by Z2C.
    Do the Wikipedia boffins recognise that role?

    Actually I have no idea. But I guess he could give some note and/or link to some page where those boffins could read about him, who he is and what does he do.

    I haven't had so much experience in editing Wikipedia articles, so I'm not sure about this. :) I just suppose.

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Janis Kracht on Thu Apr 11 16:43:23 2019
    Hello Janis,

    On another note ... who controls the Wikipedia-page describing Fidonet?

    no one... that's evidenced by the edit history and the several edit
    battles
    that have taken place ;)

    It's at least 5 years out of date ...

    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

    True...

    My son does some editorial work for wikipedia...

    What is his take on Julian Assange having been arrested
    by British police after Ecuador revoked his political asylum
    status?

    With both Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning no longer
    being able to contribute to WikiLeaks, the end may be sooner
    than later. Probably much sooner ...

    --Lee

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Thu Apr 11 16:43:29 2019
    Hello Ward,

    it is but an encyclopedia O:)

    True...

    My son does some editorial work for wikipedia...

    I've done some adaptions at some point many many years ago only to see everything turned back by some troll. There also was a guy who produced some totally disgusting page about me and really had a bad time having
    that
    removed.

    No worries. British police have solved the problem, taking
    the troll off to jail. I doubt Theresa May will grant him asylum.

    With both Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning removed, how
    much longer can WikiLeaks survive?

    --Lee

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