On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along > these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis > easier to start, without having to start yet another wiki-based > general encyclopedia that directly competes with Wikipedia. Disruptive > innovation starts in niches, not in a position where it'll just end up > a bug on Wikipedia's windscreen.
Some things I believe could be easily programmed: * Ability to surf through multiple wikis. For example, you could be reading article on a specialist wiki such as http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29 ; upon clicking the link Gilgamesh, you would be taken to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh ; when you further browse Wikipedia and click on Star Trek you would go not to Wikipedia's article but back to http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek . ** This could be more easily applied to multilingual wikis. For example, you could select which languages you know; and when you click on a link, you would be taken not to the current language but to the best article available in any of your languages. * Ability to view diffs between two articles on two wikis. I believe this would be very easy to do. * Ability to edit from diff (when you view a diff, you could select which differences do you want to insert into the article, and which differences do you want to discard). This could be very useful even within a single wiki. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
