This comment section idea can be an experiment. If it does more good than bad, we can keep it. Otherwise we can remove it. It's just as simple as enabling/disabling a MediaWiki extension.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 January 2012 23:08, Yao Ziyuan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> They can do what academics have always done: read each other's >>> published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that >>> only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably >>> isn't sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article anyway. >> >> That's exactly an "egg first or chicken first" problem. Great >> discoveries almost always come from rarely known ideas. > > I don't see a problem. Academia is very good at coming up with new > ideas that start off very small and obscure and, if they prove > promising, grow and become mainstream. It is only once they have > grown, at least a little, that they become appropriate subject-matter > for an encyclopaedia. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
