Competent writing, enforced by actual editors, volunteer or otherwise. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:41 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/22 Anthony <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Dalton >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> Perhaps "useful" is too strong a term, "useful enough to rival >>> Wikipedia" would be better. > >> I think so. If you set your standards of success in terms of Wikipedia, >> there's simply no competition. Wikipedia has achieved an unrivaled success >> in terms of the standards it has set to measure success. > > > Yep. If you set your standards of success in terms of Britannica, > Wikipedia is not quite there yet. But the point is that this doesn't > matter in practice - it turns out that Wikipedia is more useful > because people use it in practice at their desks every day, rather > than admiring the impressive shelf of books they remember from high > school. > > Britannica was already suffering from Encarta (which was invented as > demoware for the existence of CD-ROM drives) and the Internet - > Wikipedia was the Internet having the temerity to use the word > "encyclopedia." > > So whatever out-innovates Wikipedia from below will succeed in some > way we haven't thought of yet. What Wikipedia rules are there we could > try breaking? > > * NPOV (I don't think so, lots have tried this) > * Notability (possibly - our breadth is our key asset, and overapplied > "notability" rules trash this) > * NOR (maybe - note that not every Wikipedia has this rule) > * Expert privilege (Citizendium is trying this, we'll see how it goes) > > What others are there? > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
