On 12 August 2011 13:47, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 August 2011 13:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > >> My point is that making it easy to fork does not create good competitors. >> Good competitors come from elsewhere. And they will come, if we do not >> deploy WISIWIG, not lower the entrance barrier for novices, not make it >> harder to troll out respectable users, and not find a way to make >> connections to academia or otherwise considerably improve the quality. > > > Oh, absolutely. The other thing they'd need is an actual sizable > editing community, big enough to take on the task. Citizendium failed > to achieve this, for example, and ended up deleting most of the > articles they'd forked from Wikipedia.
That assumes it's actually worth editing wikipedia on any scale at this point. For most normal applications of encyclopedias it probably isn't. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
