On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc Riddell wrote: >>>> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. >> This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. > In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. Specifically, that the only way Wikipedia will get itself any sort of viable competitor is by allowing itself to be blindsided. Fortunately, a proper blindsiding requires something that addresses structural defects of Wikipedia in such a way that others can use them. (One idea that was mooted on the Citizendium forums: a general, neutral encyclopedia that is heavy on the data, using SMW or similar. Some of the dreams of Wikidata would cover this - "infoboxes on steroids" at a minimum. Have we made any progress on a coherent wishlist for Wikidata?) [And has someone trademarked Wikidata yet, or a suitable similar concept if we're too late?] - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
