Re: wikipedia - perfect for venting our frustrations and passions in a public forum!

Careful to avoid being banned from Wikipedia. It's intent is to be an
Encyclopaedia, which is a bit different from your average forum.

The US Congress got banned for some time, because staffers of politicians
were posting libelous and slanderous materials about members of the opposing
political party, unaware that posts could be back traced to the IP address
of the poster. There's a gentleman in Memphis who is now unemployed because
he updated Wikipedia from work, and his employer did not appreciate being in
the center of a media storm when it was found that the posting was a spoof
about a national icon, whose reputation was attacked in the posting.

Make sure you register with Wikipedia, and use your name when doing posts,
so the History of changes shows who dun it, instead of advertising to the
world some IP address responsible.

This is an international effort ... compared to the rest of the world,
people in the USA are extremely to the right politically (even Democratic
left wing) Long time volunteers are paranoid about data being posted that
THEY cannot verify, so everything needs to be cited, using academic
standards and pointing at reference materials available to the general
public, preferrably via the Internet.

If you don't like the name or phrase, you can change it!
Want to vent frustrations and passions?

http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_i
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_midrange_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISeries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/400

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