Calling card

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Post by apsec112 » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 6:39 AM UTC

Re: Calling card

#2

Post by gbog » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 7:48 AM UTC

Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.

Re: Calling card

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:13 AM UTC

gbog wrote: post #2

Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.

Well, of the English Wikipedia, rather.

It'd be fun if articles had links to their equivalents in other languages, with automatic translation. A problem with Wikipedia is that each language is a separate silo, which lowers the value of an universal encyclopedia.

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Post by bunkat » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:16 AM UTC

gbog wrote: post #2

Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.

Would be great if you took a few minutes to improve the article then. Reducing the cultural bias of Wikipedia happens the same way as improving Wikipedia in general, one article at a time.

Re: Calling card

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Post by vertex-four » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:17 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #3

gbog wrote: post #2

Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.

Well, of the English Wikipedia, rather. It'd be fun if articles had links to their equivalents in other languages, with automatic translation. A problem with Wikipedia is that each language is a separate silo, which lowers the value of an universal encyclopedia.

Look in the sidebar - the Languages section.

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Post by k_sze » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:43 AM UTC

This feels almost like SYN/ACK/NACK, but for people. Which means you could DDoS an aristocrat by sending them a lot of visiting cards.

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Post by barnabes » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:54 AM UTC

gbog wrote: post #2

Interesting article but it shows the cultural biais of Wikipedia, not a word about Asia where visiting cards might have been even more important to social interactions.

It's odd that in 2017 we are still having this debate. wiki welcomes you to improve the article. In fact that's the whole idea behind the site. It's odd that some users are still missing this use case in its entirety.

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Post by lemonad » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 9:04 AM UTC

vertex-four wrote: post #5

icebraining wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, of the English Wikipedia, rather. It'd be fun if articles had links to their equivalents in other languages, with automatic translation. A problem with Wikipedia is that each language is a separate silo, which lowers the value of an universal encyclopedia.

Look in the sidebar - the Languages section.

(OT) I use that feature all the time when I know the name of, say, a mathematical term in one language but not in another.

Re: Calling card

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Post by davissorenson » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 9:05 AM UTC

Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In Swedish "visitkort" and in Finnish "käyntikortti" (literally, visit card) are still the terms for business card in use today.

Re: Calling card

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Post by FabHK » Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 9:12 AM UTC

davissorenson wrote: post #9

Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In Swedish "visitkort" and in Finnish "käyntikortti" (literally, visit card) are still the terms for business card in use today.

"Visitenkarte" in German (for both today's business card and the old style calling card).