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mercredi 23 septembre 2009

Why I don't contribute to Wikipedia anymore

I cannot live anymore without Wikipedia. Each time I'm discussing a random subject with somebody and that a question pops into my head, I think "Let's look on Wikipédia" before realizing that I'm in the Big Room with the Big Blue Roof, not in front of my computer.

Nevertheless, I don't have a Wikipedia account. I don't see the need for it. Sure, it could be useful for others, but I don't think I'm really good at writing encyclopedia stuffs, I don't find it funny at all and I believe that I'm already doing some useful stuffs. I don't want yet another account, I don't want a password nor statistics.

Of course, I was correcting mistakes when reading them, I was sometimes adding one or two sentences because my knowledge of the page's subject was enough. I even created a few "stubs" when I thought it was missing. Some of them became real well-formatted Wikipedia pages afterward.

It was back in those days…

I don't do that anymore.

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mardi 23 décembre 2008

Happy Newtonmas 2142 !

Traduction française disponible ici

You have to be patient kids. You are not allowed to open your presents before midnight. If you do, Albert Einstein will not be happy. What ? You don't believe anymore in Albert Einstein ? You don't believe it would be possible for someone to know everything and to deliver gifts everywhere in one night by going faster than light ? Of course, you have grown up. Just like mankind.

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But do you know at least why you don't have to go to school this week ?

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