Wiki on the ABC

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Bob Williams
Mon 18 Feb 2013 14:24
At anchor,off Strahan
Weather: sunny, warm
Today I gave the BRM its first service after 25 hours of running time,
which involved replacing the gearbox oil and checking bolts and belts. It
looks good so far. I have also booked in for my West Coast Wilderness
Railway trip for Wednesday, the first touristy thing I have done in years. I am
looking forward to it.
This evening I fell asleep on my settee while listening to the ABC on the
radio and woke up to to a very interesting interview with Sue Gardner, the Chief
Executive of Wikimedia. I learnt a lot about Wikimedia including
that the goal of Wikipedia is to make the sum total of all human knowledge
available to all people in all languages. Ms Gardner recognised that they
will never realise that goal, but I respect that. I find it interesting
that many organisations set themselves goals for failure, such as road safety
authorities for instance, giving themselves goals of reducing the number of road
accident to a certain number, which to me is just silly, when their ultimate
goal should be zero accidents. I just want to say how great both the ABC
and Wikimedia are. I am quite pleased that I had made a small donation to
Wikimedia quite recently.
All is well.
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