A note on status of Internet-Encyclopedia. Be down for a while while Mysql
issues are resolved. But in response:
I'm not internationally unfriendly, just fluent in American English. And see
that as the de facto linqua franca. We'll just have to see if point of view
articles work out in practice. Folks would have to repond to a point of view
article not by editing it to change the point of view but by writing a new
article from a new point of view.
Internet-encyclopedia contemplates editors continuing to participate
actively in wikipedia anyway. Otherwise they would lose touch with both the
other editors, who are potential internet-encyclopedia editors, with the
content of articles and their history. It is only through that involvement
that articles in internet-encyclopedia could reflect the best of what is in
Wikipedia and add value to it.
It is contemplated that while on Wikipedia, editors would follow the NPOV
standard. I would never have asked to be a sysop if I was not willing to do
that while on Wikipedia.
It's interesting how much I have adopted some of Larry's ideas (butting
heads with him was probably my main motivation for doing
Internet-Encyclopedia). I think there is a case for selecting well-done
articles and presenting them in an alternative format. (He called that
"sifting") Also I think there is case for real experts should they choose to
edit being accorded a certain respect and exemption from the hurly burly of
wiki process, hence the notion of signed articles, which would be exempt
from the normal editing process, (although a parallel article on the same
subject could still exist).
Will it fail? I certainly hope it is only a modest success, not sure I could
afford a big success like Wikipedia.
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:42:38 -0800
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] internet-encyclopedia.info
I think this is great, then. I don't personally think it will be very
successful, but I think that the experimentation made possible by GNU
licensing is exciting and interesting.
Also you can't go GNU and expect no one to
ever use it.
Right, I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought otherwise.
Here's what I think: for *us*, NPOV and international-friendliness are
core values. If people agree with those things, but want to fork for
some other reason, I hope that we can find ways to resolve the issue
and keep everyone together, for the good of the project.
But if people want to fork for other purposes, that's fine, and I
won't try to talk them out of it.
--Jimbo
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