[FFmpeg-cvslog] [ffmpeg.org]: r300 - trunk/src/contact

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:13:26PM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:56:57PM +0100, superdump wrote:
> >>
> >> Log:
> >
> >> The thread hijacking article on wikipedia was removed because it didn't contain
> >> any citations.
> >
> > ROTFL
> > next they remove the article on evolution because it doesnt contain a
> > citation of the bible
> 
> That was my thinking too, though worded differently. Why can't
> wikipedia be _the_ point of reference? Why does everything have to be
> cited? There are many things which could be on there, the origin of
> which people do not know and that people are not laying claim to but
> that do exist.

That's a hot topic of debate in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia

There are inclusionists who want Wikipedia to be the sum of all human
knowledge and exclusionists that believe it should only contain content
that is in some form encyclopedic.

You tend to the inclusionist side, like I do as well.

> Denying knowledge of thread hijacking simply because it doesn't have
> any other solid point of reference (though 'hijacking of discussion
> threads' is noted on the netiquette page and they haven't removed
> that...) has to be some kind of censorship or just plain ignorance of
> what goes on in the world. Maybe we should have cited some of our
> threads where we wrote "Don't hijack threads!" to perpetrators. Maybe
> that would be sufficient basis for a wikipedia page.

The term "thread hijacking" is a neologism.  That makes it problematic
for an encyclopedia, at least in the minds of some people.  It's clearly
not as common a term as, say, top-posting.  But around where we live,
everybody knows it.

I've been involved with that article and in fact promised to find some
external sources for it before it was deleted, but then slacked off.

It's now restored on my user pages where I started adding some external
references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking

Help in improving this currently quite mediocre article is very welcome.

Diego