On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:27 AM, doc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed would it not be great if in ten years time I can google a > subject, easily find the wikipedia article, and then, if the subject is > not so obscure that only Wikipedia will cover it, follow the link to the > academically respectable Otherpedia.com article (which, indeed, is > reliable enough to have been allowed as a source for Wikipedia)! > I think this is in fact a market opportunity for a Metapedia. Import the organizational / title trees of all the publically available freely licensed encyclopedias, merge, present readers with alternate views / options / approaches to a particular topic. Optionally, display in parallel, Wikipedia next to Citizendum next to Otherpedia. Click on a hyperlink in any and it works across all the panes. Click on a focus tab for a particular pane and get the wider navigation / editing / etc tabs for that particular encyclopedia. We could even conceptually add a function to Wikipedia, to add cross-wiki links to other non-WP projects in the same manner as we do to foreign language Wikipedias now. Why should we not have a link to Citizendum or Otherpedia.com on the WP page? We don't lose anything doing that. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
