On 24/11/2010 09:48, Fred Bauder wrote: > It is not the specific variation which is central. Anything that > successfully incorporates social media can succeed, as some Wikia wikis > have such as Lostpedia: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page > > Enthusiasm is what makes the difference. Why does FourLoko succeed where > root beer fails? > Well, yes, in that "it's the community, stupid" is a good general reply to abstract specification and constitutional talk about online work. Of course this is the opposite of a "differentiator" from WP; in some sense a successful community ought to have something in common with (some successful language version of) Wikipedia. CZ had a founding idea that the differentiator was at least in part to be "we're not Wikipedia ... and so experts are welcome". Always partly a slur in fact, but they apparently have not made that work. Underestimation of gnoming and page churn is not going to help. Overestimation of the writerly neither.
There is a gap in the market for something that is basically "the mother of all infoboxes", or a sophisticated version of that. Commercially I believe this is being done in my home town, probably elsewhere too. Ontologies and structured data but for the masses, not theoreticians, and with a thoughtful and attractive front end (for younger viewers, let's say). Death of the author. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
