On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's like the perennial proposal for multiple article versions on > Wikipedia for each point of view. This solves a problem for the > *writers*, but makes one for the *readers*. They seem to want one > source with one article on a topic, else they'd just hit the top ten > links in Google instead of going to Wikipedia. (Wikinfo has tried > implementing this. Its readership is negligible compared to Wikipedia, > but its writers enjoy it.) > > Why do people want ten Wikipedias to look up instead of one? They > observably don't - they want a source they can quickly look up > something in that they can reasonably trust to be useful. They only go > to multiple sources if that one starts sucking.
As a reader, this is exactly my subconscious opinion. I'm glad you nailed our subconscious thoughts. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
