On 24 September 2010 12:41, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> They need a USP (Sanger's involvement is not going to be at all relevant > to that now). Well, they need a few things. There was some forum discussion a while ago about using Semantic MediaWiki for importing large databases in a more useful format than plain text. First they need to get back to a mainline MediaWiki with their customisations in an extension. (The previous "let's be gratuitously different to Wikimedia" stance [*] has been changed - e.g. Dan Nessett has been active on wikitech-l with regards to how to test a MediaWiki instance). But an encyclopedia with the semantic stuff actually being used - that'd be *interesting*. > But it prompts me to wonder > what our USP is. "You have heard of us" doesn't count. "We're the biggest and the best by a ridiculous degree" does, however. Not first - Everything2 and h2g2 started earlier. I think it helps that we can still honestly say "we're painfully aware of how and how much we suck." - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
