Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I don't understand turning the Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia
into a wiki format or what's a Brin Wiki, but I am all for doing
anything to block trolls from remove any of Dr. Brin's contributions
to the SF lexicon.
Jon--
Hi. I guess the conversation got a bit involved
there. The "troll" wants to remove some free-standing
articles from Wikipedia. Notably those on Alvin (the young
Hoon on Jijo) and on the Streaker. My sense is that this
is a philosophical thing to him--he's in the "Deletionist"
camp on Wikipedia, who want to limit the number of articles
on "non-notable topics". (He also questions articles on
minor academic journals, people I've never heard of, and
so on.)
Whether or not the Alvin and Streaker articles stay,
our sense was that it would be easier to build an
extensive Wiki without the "contributions" of people
like him. Hence the plan to set something up apart
from Wikipedia.
---David
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