All, Is there any chance we can break 7,000 by tomorrow? I think so. OK, maybe it's a long shot, but I thought I would nudge wiki activity along a little, and I have been harboring some thoughts about that for a while...
There are some ways of aggregating information quickly from credible sources. One way is to copy it from public domain government sources. Here are some good starting points: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Research.shtml http://www.science.gov/ http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/History.shtml Etc. Of course, if you *do* copy info from public domain sources, remember that the article is status "4" until it is significantly changed, and you should (for the benefit of the *reader*) state at the bottom of the article what the source of "an earlier version" of the article was (with a link). There's another way that one can quickly do research for and produce articles quickly, if that's what you want to do. Indeed, it's something I wish someone would make a page about: mining information from the many "portal"-type websites that exist now. For a collection of such portals, see http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collections_of_expert-reviewed_re sources Finally, there's a project I would love for anyone to organize (on the wiki). Often, when we write articles, gathering good external links is done as an afterthought. But this can be one of the most valuable parts of the overall "cluster." So here's another approach we might take to this task. We might go to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or other unquestionably reliable resources, and systematically add links to many different of our own articles, and if necessary create new External Links pages. To put it differently, normally when we look for links, we look for links for each encyclopedia article topic. But it might prove to be more useful to look for links by resource for many different articles all at once, assuming all articles from a given free, edited resource are pretty reliable. Anyway, that's just an idea. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
