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visited Norway in May 2006. When journalists challenged him about the sometimes erroneous information that the encyclopedia presents, Øgrim responded that by itself that was not a problem – on the contrary it may be viewed as an advantage: "Knowledge (XXG) asks everybody to do a checkup of their
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At his memorial service Leikny Øgrim told of growing up with a big brother who would read the dictionary from beginning to end and who from reading even the telephone book could learn something to relate to acquaintances. Douglas Draper, secretary of the
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generally and the history of communism in Nepal specifically. Øgrim was known in the
Norwegian wikicommunity for writing very long articles about somewhat obscure topics. He also cared much about smaller wikis and their progress. He was routinely posting messages about milestones at the Norwegian
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as "applied communism". He was a mainstay contributor of the
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more than six months in advance, Tron might call up three days before the start of the event and ask what he could do to help out.
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own information and not accept anything on face value. If you ask me, it is a democratic problem that so little awareness of
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short talk on behalf of the NEL, by turns bantering and earnest. He said there were three kinds of
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