Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 22:46, Fred Bauder wrote: > The network effects are massive. Simply wanting doing something better > doesn't work. What does work is Wikia wikis such as Lostpedia that will > draw a small crowd. Yeah. The small, specialist approach is clearly something that can produce tiny

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Fred Bauder
> On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein wrote: > >> Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal. >>  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of >> chapters? >> I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is >> good. That compe

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread geni
On 20 December 2010 09:35, David Gerard wrote: > On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein wrote: >> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > There can be no viable >>> alternative to Wikipedia. > >> What? > > > This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at > this stage for som

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein wrote: > Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal. >  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of > chapters? > I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is > good. That competitors ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Noein
On 20/12/2010 15:31, David Gerard wrote: > On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride wrote: >> Marc Riddell wrote: > On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > >>> This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. > >> In th

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride wrote: > Marc Riddell wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. >> This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. > In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. Spec

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread MZMcBride
Marc Riddell wrote: >>> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >> There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > > This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. MZMcBride

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Riddell
>> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > > There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. Marc Riddell ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:35, David Gerard wrote: > (Any cases I've missed there?) The madmen. Or is that overlaying both? :) g ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein wrote: > On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> There can be no viable >> alternative to Wikipedia. > What? This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at this stage for someone to be a better Wikipedia than Wikipedia. So anyone else w

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Noein
On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >> There can be no viable > alternative to Wikipedia. > > Fred > > User:Fred Bauder What? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
> Fred Bauder wrote: >> http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! > > Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop > in > the sea of Wikipedia clones. > > MZMcBride > That one is an actual wiki. We talked about it. I'm just updating. Network effects should take care of it. Ther

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 01:24, MZMcBride wrote: > Fred Bauder wrote: >> http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! > Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop in > the sea of Wikipedia clones. Not vastly, except that it's actually a fork from Citizendium rather than Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread MZMcBride
Fred Bauder wrote: > http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop in the sea of Wikipedia clones. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http

[Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Fred User:Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l