On 03/11/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, a thing like a good article template would be
good. Spooky how this
email came right after I requested a Veropedia account
I really like the idea of Veropedia, and that their "donate here" link
actually tells you to give your money to WMF if you like Veropedia ;-)
Danny's been all about quality improvement for a long while, and
Veropedia is certainly a step up from the usual plain
mirror-site-with-Google-ads. That the Veropedia improvement mechanism
is to improve the Wikipedia article is good too.
That said, I'm not sure I wouldn't just look stuff up on Wikipedia as
usual. (Yes, I do use Wikipedia as a convenient encyclopedia now,
whereas I wouldn't have when I started with it ... maybe on technical
topics.) But then, I hardly look up an article these days without
performing at least a minor touch-up edit on it.
What do others think of Veropedia? In particular, what do you think
would make people want to look stuff up at Veropedia first?
- d.