So uh...

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  1. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    We can make the Troikapedia the new Wiki.

    Now we just need to copy all their content, it's not like we need new articles for stuff like Tanzania. And someone please find a loophole that doesn't make that count as theft of their intellectual property.
     
  2. Jazintha Piper

    Jazintha Piper Member

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    Welll... the content of a Wiki changes all the time, and technically all the content on the internet doesn't actually belong to anyone unless it's a copy of a published text... and even then you can use it as long as you reference it....

    ...?
     
  3. mathboy

    mathboy New Member

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    Wow, I just thought you were extremely stupid, Jazintha, so stupid that I was going to write a post about it.

    Then I remembered what date it is today. You had me fooled there for a while!

    :)
     
  4. Blinky969

    Blinky969 Active Member

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    Well, technically Wikipedia owns NONE of it's content since it's all referenced to other sites. as long as you include a tag citing that it's from wikipedia you can use it to your hearts content, and technically speaking you could include the tag in a place that makes it almost unnoticeable.
     
  5. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    Do you know how many servers we'd need to support all that crap? Wikipedia has acres and acres of garbage. They even've a page on Jordan!*


    *I think she's one of the ugliest women I've ever seen.
     
  6. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Since you're in the business, it's your job to get us the servers we need. Tell your boss a customer tripped over them or something.

    Why do you lie?

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  7. Jazintha Piper

    Jazintha Piper Member

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    Ach, mathboy. It was a lasp of vocabularity. One of the lecturers chucked a wobbly about us using Wikipedia in our assignments, and I didn't bother to explain to him that...

    You know what? I've dug a deep enough hole.

    I was thinking along the lines that by the time you copy every single article, alphabetically, into Troikapedia, the information in the first article copied would have changed already, and we would have added our own quips in it.

    There. Is it deep enough yet??
     
  8. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    Hooray! It becomes a Catch 22! Oh, and I'ven't worked since february. So you'll've to get someone else to get servers. Maybe get Japes to swipe a couple high-end military servers?
     
  9. mathboy

    mathboy New Member

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    I know that the content of Wikipedia changes a lot. The April's fool in your post is the bold part:
     
  10. Jungle Japes

    Jungle Japes Well-Known Member

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    Again I remind you that I'm in the Army, not the Airforce. We get their hand-me-downs.
     
  11. Blinky969

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    Yes, yes you do. Not as bad as working at the ROTC, my desktop at work has a floppy drive.
     
  12. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Oh yeah? Well, I'm sitting here on a 366 MHz laptop running Win98 (and hell yes it's got a floppy drive), how's that for being old-school?

    Yorkshiremen! Yorkshiremen! Yorkshiremen!
     
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