Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread fridaesdoom
I think that the 404 might be the blocks Sarah was talking about. -James. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

2011-04-10 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:26 PM, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote: I've also suggested this, calling it  '''Wikipedia Two'' - an encyclopedia supplement where the standard of notability  is much relaxed, but which will be different from Wikia by still requiring WP:Verifiability, and NPOV.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 April 2011 13:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2011 12:53, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Interestingly only Liberapedia and one of the conservative sites, http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Main_Page are actually open for editing.

Re: [WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

2011-04-10 Thread geni
On 8 April 2011 23:07, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life. Here's how that site works: *Experts write articles (similar to the original Nupedia, only they dint' give up after nine articles) *Articles that

Re: [WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

2011-04-10 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Haha, yes. And we certainly seem to be cutting out those who don't wish to identify. God bless, Bob On 4/10/2011 2:44 PM, geni wrote: On 8 April 2011 23:07, Bob the Wikipedianbobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life. Here's how

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
But Europeans might contaminate Conservapedia with *gasp* things that don't test your faith! That site's a mess. Better that the world /doesn't/ see it, really. They might start thinking conservative Christians (like myself) are all that ignorant. And according to the article on dinosaurs, I'm

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Ancient Apparition
Conservapedia seeks to rewrite history, it makes Convservative Christians look like uninformed idiots, most Christians ALREADY KNOW that man did land on the moon, the earth isn't flat, dinosaurs did exist, the earth CAN'T possibly be 6000 years old and that the earth revolves around the sun. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread MuZemike
Not to be supporting Conservapedia (more like playing Devil's Advocate), but isn't rewriting history different from reinterpreting history? It's like interpreting The Bible; that is, there are different interpretations of the entire book that span the entire one-dimensional political spectrum.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-10 Thread Ancient Apparition
Sorry, good point MuZemike, that's what I meant. The world would benefit more if the kind folks at Conservapedia tore down the site. Andrew Schlafly is full of bull... Colbert's interview with him is... interesting, tch, yeah Wikipedia is biased Dream on Schlafly! -- -Ancient Apparition