Meh, Apple has put some smart safeguards in Safari (And Firefox and Chrome have also adapted it) that translates "font-size: 12px;" to 24px.
However, as hi-res displays become more commonplace also on Windows PCs, this might becom an issue.
Well, yes and no.
There is of course http://www.comixpedia.org/,which was created as a reaction to last years deletion spree. They provide original articles and provide a home to webcomic articles that were deleted from wikipedia (Under the GNUFDL-License). (By the way, the wikipedia article on Comixpedia was deleted today. Deletion was proposed because of Copyright infringment (Which it's not, as they operate under the same license as Wikipedia, exactly to avoid that issue) and for being "non notable".)
"Speedy remove" (Which I understand as "Let's delete this before anyone can chime in") was carried through because "User's first edit was to {{subst:afd}} and then proceed to do these" which is something that someone who speaks Wikipedian might have to translate for me...
However, Howard Tayler's point was not so much that he wanted people to support Webcomics, but that he felt this was a good way to express his discontent with the deletion policies on Wikipedia.
The deletion process was set up to remove vandalism, vanity articles (Such as the much referred "MySpace bands with one MP3") libel etc.
When webcomics, an artform on the same medium as Wikipedia itself, some with 50.000 daily readers, have articles removed because they are non notable (as in "have to be reprinted in newspapers, can't have self published books, needs reference, etc."), but there can be individual articles on minor Starwars characters (From the one of the games)you can bet that people will voice their opinion.
As for articles taking up space on the Wikipedia harddrives: Even when they get "Deleted", they are still there. They never actually get removed, the links just go dead, and they don't show up in search results. So, what is the point in "deleting" articles?
Wikipedia has the potential to be a near unlimited repository of knowledge (Please note that knowledge, in my opinion includes Trivia (If included in the right article) and niche entries). Some articles may go unread for years, but isn't it better to find what you are looking for than finding a page that says "Deleted, non-notable?".
The prohibition on public performance without royalties is more like if you played a CD in front of a crowd of people and somehow charged them money for this (has this ever happened in the history of recorded music?). I think it's called DJ'ing...
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Meh, Apple has put some smart safeguards in Safari (And Firefox and Chrome have also adapted it) that translates "font-size: 12px;" to 24px. However, as hi-res displays become more commonplace also on Windows PCs, this might becom an issue.
Storage space is not the issue here. Deleted articles are actually kept. They just aren't accesible to anyone but admins.
Well, yes and no. There is of course http://www.comixpedia.org/ ,which was created as a reaction to last years deletion spree. They provide original articles and provide a home to webcomic articles that were deleted from wikipedia (Under the GNUFDL-License). (By the way, the wikipedia article on Comixpedia was deleted today. Deletion was proposed because of Copyright infringment (Which it's not, as they operate under the same license as Wikipedia, exactly to avoid that issue) and for being "non notable".)
"Speedy remove" (Which I understand as "Let's delete this before anyone can chime in") was carried through because "User's first edit was to {{subst:afd}} and then proceed to do these" which is something that someone who speaks Wikipedian might have to translate for me...
However, Howard Tayler's point was not so much that he wanted people to support Webcomics, but that he felt this was a good way to express his discontent with the deletion policies on Wikipedia.
The deletion process was set up to remove vandalism, vanity articles (Such as the much referred "MySpace bands with one MP3") libel etc.
When webcomics, an artform on the same medium as Wikipedia itself, some with 50.000 daily readers, have articles removed because they are non notable (as in "have to be reprinted in newspapers, can't have self published books, needs reference, etc."), but there can be individual articles on minor Starwars characters (From the one of the games)you can bet that people will voice their opinion.
As for articles taking up space on the Wikipedia harddrives: Even when they get "Deleted", they are still there. They never actually get removed, the links just go dead, and they don't show up in search results. So, what is the point in "deleting" articles?
Wikipedia has the potential to be a near unlimited repository of knowledge (Please note that knowledge, in my opinion includes Trivia (If included in the right article) and niche entries). Some articles may go unread for years, but isn't it better to find what you are looking for than finding a page that says "Deleted, non-notable?".
*wooooooosh*