On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Ah, but you don't return when you click on a link that exists both on
Wikipedia and another wiki.
Not only that, but you miss out on a huge set of features. You can't
have shared user account names across wikis, you
On 1 July 2011 09:27, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 07/01/2011 09:15 AM, David Gerard wrote:
Per HaeB's link, this is a perennial proposal. People like the idea,
but in eighteen years - back as far as the
Why do people want ten Wikipedias to look up instead of one?
Why would people want millions of computers instead of just eight?
Why would we want terabytes of memory when we could have just 640
kilobytes? When I go to the library, why are there a gazillion
books, instead of just the best book?
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
It's like the perennial proposal for multiple article versions on
Wikipedia for each point of view. This solves a problem for the
*writers*, but makes one for the *readers*. They seem to want one
source with one article on a
On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
easier to start, without having to start yet another wiki-based
general encyclopedia that directly competes with
On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
Some things I believe could be easily
On 07/01/2011 09:15 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 07/01/2011 09:15 AM, David Gerard wrote:
Per HaeB's link, this is a perennial proposal. People like the idea,
but in eighteen years - back as far as the Interpedia proposal, before
wikis existed - no-one has made one
On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
easier to start, without having to start yet
On 07/01/2011 04:42 PM, geni wrote:
On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote:
* Ability to surf through multiple wikis. For example, you could be
reading article on a specialist wiki such as
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29 ; upon clicking the
link
On 30 June 2011 17:00, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
[a git-like distributed wikisphere]
It's not my idea, I believe it's been independently suggested at
least five different times that I know of. But it's a HUGE step that
would require a big, bold push from developers and thus
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Adapting MediaWiki to git has been tried a few times. I suspect the
problem is that the software deeply assumes a database behind it, not
a version-controlled file tree. Wrong model for an easy fix to
MediaWiki itself.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 June 2011 17:00, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
[a git-like distributed wikisphere]
It's not my idea, I believe it's been independently suggested at
least five different times that I know of.
I have
On 30 June 2011 19:49, HaeB haebw...@gmail.com wrote:
I have added your postings to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals
:-D
Do you have an index of this sort of perennial proposal? Apart from,
of course,
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