On 5/29/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
But I don't see the elimination of barriers to contribution as being
exclusive to being a wiki. Is DMOZ a wiki? Would it become one if
you eliminated the rules about signing up and getting approved before
you can "become an editor"?
Jimmy Wales tried applying "the wiki part" to a web directory
(Wikiasari). The project failed miserably.
I dunno, maybe DMOZ *would* be "a wiki" if you eliminated just a
couple of the stupid rules. And maybe it would be enormously more
successful if you did so. Of course, maybe Nupedia would have
overtaken Wikipedia by now if Bomis had just funded it for a few more
years. I've read before that Larry Sanger thinks this.
DMOZ is a creepy mess; Wikipedia's starting to develop some of the same
self-congratulating culture of admins that it has (or had last time I
checked). It freaks me out.