> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:05 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: >> If we look at the more successful wikis however the only successful >> ones appear to be allowing original research, Some level of POV and >> totaly non wikipedia style. TVTropes is probably the best example. > > I disagree with this. Some of the most successful non-wikipedia wikis > I know of are in fact extremely similar to wikipedia. I'm thinking > here mainly of pop-culture wikis, like the Battlestar Wiki, > Wookiepedia and the Lostpedia. They all borrow heavily from the > Wikipedia "style", so they all look just as dry and formal, and they > generally have similar policies when it comes to POV and original > research. > > An interesting case study is Lostpedia. Since most of the fun that > comes from endlessly discussing Lost is speculating about what the > hell is going on and coming up with your own pet theories, you'd > expect the wiki to be infested with original research. In fact, it is > not. They only allow confirmed canonical information in the articles > themselves (i.e. no speculation), and then each article has a sub-page > called "Theories" (essentially a discussion page) where people can > speculate to their hearts content. But it can't make it into the > article. Just for funsies, check out the article on Lostpedia on the > DHARMA Initiative and tell me if this doesn't look like a wikipedia > article: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/DHARMA_initiative > > I think it's very clear that wikipedia has developed a very successful > model, not least because many other wikis seem to almost automatically > adopt our style and policies. In short: Wikipedia Works. > > --Oskar
Wikipedia works like Wall Street works, because it has an effective monopoly. Lostpedia fails to resolve a fundamental problem Wikipedia has not been able to successfully resolve, how to deal with creative thought, even trivial thought about how future plots on a television series might be structured. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
