Scientia Potentia est wrote: > Sounds a lot like Simple English Wikipedia. > > bibliomaniac15 > > --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 6:13 PM > > David Gerard wrote: > > http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/interview-with-wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales/ > >> >> > > A very nice and reflective interview, waxing philosophical. > > The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo > missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis > citizendium. > > Citizendiums "narrative" and "engaging the reader" style > does in fact sound good in theory, and it could work, if the > people writing citizendium were actually good at narratives; > but in fact they are not. Mostly it falls flat in a stupendously > comic fashion. Witness for instance the citizendium article > on imaginary numbers. The narrative voice there grates as > if there was a Sunday school supervisor reading text to wee > bairns and smiling every three words, to emphasize that we > so love this stuff, ain't it cute and cuddly, these imaginary > numbers, stuff and golly-winks. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > __________
Just by the by, the article of course on imaginary numbers is a bare stub on citizendium. The article I was thinking about is of course "Complex numbers". Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
