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From: "Andrea Vogel" <>
Subject: Huguenot Info on Wikipedia
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:29:12 -0700


Hello to all --

Does everyone know about Wikipedia
"the free encyclopedia"?
There's a lot of info there regarding
Huguenots. For example, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots.

To find further info on the same site, type
the word Huguenot in the search field on the
left side of the webpage.
Also, if you scroll down to just below
the search feature, you will see that you
can read Wikipedia in your choice of more
than a dozen different languages.

I also did a search for Walloon info
then had a quick look at it but it seems to
be mostly, if not entirely, about Walloons in
present-day Belgium, not the Walloons
of historical context that we are interested
in on this list. But if anyone finds some
relevent Walloon info there, please
post the webpage URL to the list.

Another other interesting thing
about Wikipedia is that it describes itself
on its home page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
as an encyclopedia "that anyone can edit".
By this, they state that it is "written
collaboratively by many of its readers.
Lots of people are constantly improving
Wikipedia, making thousands of changes
an hour...."

I'm not sure how this works and with
what success but I can think of several
of our very knowledgeable and helpful
HWE listers who may be interested in
participating in this feature! (I'll leave
you to guess who they may be <g>.)

Now I know this doesn't apply at all to
any potential editors on HWE but you
may be interested to read the cautionary
pages which are an attempt to weed out
undesirable material being edited into Wikipedia. For example, there is the
webpage headed "Patent nonsense" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense
with links at bottom of page to Nonsense --
by which I guess they mean just regular,
ordinary, everyday nonsense, as opposed
to patent nonsense <g> -- as well as to Gobbledygook and Gibberish

Then there is the page headed Vandalism
here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism
with discussion of what is meant by
editorial vandalism, including various
categories such as childish, silly, sneaky
and attention-seeking among other types.

Hope some of you have found this
interesting. Any further comments about
content found on Wikipedia are welcome
on this list but I caution that they must relate
to the topic of HWE. Regards, Andrea
(list concierge)




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