On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:16 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 August 2011 13:47, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12 August 2011 13:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My point is that making it easy to fork does not create good competitors. >>> Good competitors come from elsewhere. And they will come, if we do not >>> deploy WISIWIG, not lower the entrance barrier for novices, not make it >>> harder to troll out respectable users, and not find a way to make >>> connections to academia or otherwise considerably improve the quality. >> >> >> Oh, absolutely. The other thing they'd need is an actual sizable >> editing community, big enough to take on the task. Citizendium failed >> to achieve this, for example, and ended up deleting most of the >> articles they'd forked from Wikipedia. > > That assumes it's actually worth editing wikipedia on any scale at > this point. For most normal applications of encyclopedias it probably > isn't.
We still have wide gaps in knowledge coverage. Not in the most common areas, but in many specialized areas, where they're not heavily geek-populated. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
