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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jonny</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Media"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Dear
Lowlanners and Ron,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">though
I'm not sure about the LL-L relevance of this topic I found it to be an
important step in internet developement and thus to inform all of you. I think
we'll get very interesting new sources, in special for historical matters</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Have
a look into this site, if you're able to deal with a minimum level of German.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><a href="http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/1225917.html" target="_blank">http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/1225917.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I
wish you a nice evening from a very cold and 'un-gemuetlich' Northern Germany!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Jonny
Meibohm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>>
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Subject: Resources<br>
<br>
Thanks, Jonny.<br>
<br>
Lowlanders, I don't advocate a lengthy off-track discussion here. But let me
just briefly mention that the German article Jonny refers to and also articles
linked to it deal with the growing importance of the Wikipedia as well as
freedom of speech and freedom of access to information in general.<br>
<br>
Germany's
Federal Archives now shares ca. 100,000 digitized pictures with the Wikipedia,
and the Wikipedia will in turn help to identify and date as many as possible.<br>
<br>
Related and linked articles report that several people, including some German
politicians and organizations, perceive the Wikipedia as a threat in that they
disagree with certain descriptions and characterizations in it. As is typical
in such instances, they point to what they think is uncontrolled access and dissemination
of information by an amorphous group of people. Off-center politicians seem to insinuate
that these people are a rag-tag band of biased radicals and are thus dangerous.
This is felt especially by those off-center politicians that feel that articles
about them were distortions, at least before they leaned on the Wiki folks by insisting
on numerous revisions. And, yes, some of these politicians call for banning the
Wikipedia. In other words, we are dealing with the electronic age's version of
book burning.<br>
<br>
What is particularly interesting to me is that in this context there is only
talk about the German edition of Wikipedia and pretty much no mention of the
fact that this is a global effort using large numbers of languages. This points
toward the fact that, due to being international and not centralized, the
Wikipedia effort can not be controlled or indeed stopped by anyone other than
the Wikipedia staff itself, and this is apparently very frustrating to some. This
may be a sign of the time, a time that we are likely to look back to as one of
profound change, perhaps even a time of unprecedented emancipation and
assertion due to the establishment of the Internet and due to non-governmental
and non-commercial international efforts to create global access to resources
and information. Calls for and implementation of governmental bans (blocking
access) indicate just how threatening this is in the eyes of some. Personally,
I believe that their efforts will be unable to halt these international
volunteer efforts in the long run. ("Power to the people"?)<br><br>I suppose the most important thing is that the Wikipedia effort stay on track, aim for high standards of truth, fairness and independence, and remain true to the initial concept. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span></p>