Re: If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?
Tim Starling <[email protected]>
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On 13/02/13 10:41, David Gerard wrote: > On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been >> protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the >> entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was >> 'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I >> suppose this is all missing the point of the question... > > > It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access > to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up? Maybe some disease of local concern. Water-borne diseases like typhoid or cholera would be a lucky choice, since ten minutes would just about give you time to follow a q.v. to "chlorination" and make the relevant discovery some 4 years early. Calcium hypochlorite was already widely available, all you've got to do is mix it with your drinking water. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l