Re: [Wikimediauk-l] new book on Wikipedia

2015-01-06 Thread Gordon Joly
On 05/01/15 23:27, HJ Mitchell wrote: > Competing with Wikipedia (replying to Fabian; sorry for breaking the > threading) always struck me as being a bit like arguing with yourself. > Wikipedia is far from flawless (as a concept, as a project, or as an > encyclopaedia), but the whole point of it is

[Wikimediauk-l] Competing with Wikipedia (was: new book on Wikipedia)

2015-01-06 Thread Chris McKenna
There are sites that can successfully co-exist with Wikipedia, either by focusing on a niche area that is out of scope for Wikipedia (almost everything at Wikia for example), or by having a different philosophy (e.g. Rational Wiki), or some combination of the two (e.g. TV Tropes). Not all are s

[Wikimediauk-l] Free E-books available for editors (donation from Pelican books)

2015-01-06 Thread Jonathan Cardy
Happy New Year everyone, I hope Santa was generous and has given you enough reference materials for the foreseeable future, but if anyone is interested, we have the following free books available for experienced Wikipedians who could make use of them in your editing. *Greek and Roman Political Id