A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life. Here's how that site works: *Experts write articles (similar to the original Nupedia, only they dint' give up after nine articles) *Articles that are lacking are temporarily imported from Wikipedia *Wikipedia articles which are reviewed and approved by experts become permanent content *Taxonomic data is imported from various databases, including WORMS, ITIS, and various other trusted names. *The public (supposedly) may contribute information (though I've not figured out how yet) *The public may contribute tagged freely licensed photos to the wiki by uploading them to the EOL's Flickr photostream where a bot adds them regularly.
On the surface, EOL looks like it's doing quite well and has a lot of useful information and photos, and I even use it sometimes for research when Wikipedia doesn't satisfy my hunger :-[ . But if you ask me, they've made it too difficult to learn to contribute, barring out potential editors like myself. God bless, Bob On 4/8/2011 4:58 PM, MuZemike wrote: > That wouldn't solve anything, except further draw a hard line and create > an even larger rift between editors. If we strive to be an "open > community" where we bring people together, then we would collectively be > making it more closed by doing this. > > -MuZemike > > On 4/8/2011 1:26 PM, David Goodman wrote: >> I've also suggested this, calling it '''Wikipedia Two'' - an >> encyclopedia supplement where the standard of notability is much >> relaxed, but which will be different from Wikia by still requiring >> WP:Verifiability, and NPOV. It would include the lower levels of >> barely notable articles in Wikipedia, and the upper levels of a good >> deal of what we do not let in. It would for example include both high >> schools and elementary schools. It would include college athletes. It >> would include political candidates. It would include neighborhood >> businesses, and fire departments. It would include individual >> asteroids. It would include anyone who had a credited role in a film, >> or any named character in one--both the ones we currently leave out, >> and the ones we put in. This should satisfy both the inclusionists >> and the deletionists. The deletionists will have this material out of >> Wikipedia, the inclusionists will have it not rejected. >> >> But it would be interesting to see a search option: >> Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the notable(W)? >> Anyone care to guess which people would choose? >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
