David Gerard wrote: > 2009/4/22 doc <[email protected]>: > >> You need to offer a writer something very different, if you are to >> motivate him to write in the early stages when readership will be low. >> Or indeed, you have to attract the type of writer who would be wholly >> disinterested in writing for wikipedia. > > > More - you need people who are actually disinterested, not embittered. > Note how many Wikipedia Review regulars have managed to get banned > from Citizendium as well as Wikipedia in record time. It's entirely > unclear why they don't start their own wiki encyclopedia, and thus > demonstrate our evil and worthlessness. > > > - d. >
I suspect that most of such critics have reached the conclusion that a wiki is not a suitable way of creating an encyclopedia. It does seem to me that most of this discussion is predicated on the assumption that Otherpedia.org will be a wiki and will be free-use. I strongly suspect that anything that starts from that basis will be too much like wikipedia to be anything more than a small-player in some niche. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
