Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

[Paddy]

On Mar 21, 10:31 pm, cla... at lairds.us (Cameron Laird) wrote:
> In article <1174508599.250404.176... at y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
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> Paddy <paddy3... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >On Mar 21, 8:20 pm, j... at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
> >> "Paddy" <paddy3... at googlemail.com> writes:
> >> > I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
> >> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c57cfb7b3772763
> >> > removed fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctestasit doesn't fit
> >> > their guidelines for external links.
> >> > I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
> >> > so that it could be linked to?
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> >> > Tim, would you object?
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> >> It (wikipedia) is a wiki, why not edit the page and paste it in?
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> >> John
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> >They have rules, and periodically trawl pages and clean them. I'd like
> >to stay within the rules.
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> >- Paddy.
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> Phaseit would be honored to memorialize a permanent URL for
> that post, or even the thread from which it's taken.  Is that
> an appropriate resolution, Paddy?

Thanks Cameron for the kind offer, but after Paul Ruben made me aware
that the initial edit was done by a rogue 'bot, I reverted the page to
its prior state.

Maybe, if you email Tim, he might welcome you adding his post to your
site anyway? - I think its wasted just being available as a newsgroup
search, and should at least be available somewhere on the official
Python website. Doctest is a great idea that is in harmony with the
language it is expressed in.

- Paddy.