On 29 December 2010 08:24, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > To me (and > others), that leaves the question of what would happen if you wrote some > software that was actually built for making an encyclopedia, rather than the > jack of all trades product that MediaWiki is.
MediaWiki is precisely that software. And there's any number of specialist wikis using it that are basically Wikipedia in a specialist area. This sounds like "software that looks to me on the surface like it was actually built for making an encyclopedia". This is, of course, not at all the same as success. Note the number of competitors, forks and comolements that have already beached having assumed "I can do a better Wikipedia if it fits my idea of how an encyclopedia *should* look" and been dead wrong. You're reasoning from the assumption of no knowledge, rather than one of considerable knowledge. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
