[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

[geni]

On 12 August 2011 20:59, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12 August 2011 20:24, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We still have wide gaps in knowledge coverage.  Not in the most common
>>> areas, but in many specialized areas, where they're not heavily
>>> geek-populated.
>>>
>>
>> Yes but those don't have much to do with normal applications of encyclopedias.
>
> Sure they do.  The question is what coverage you want in the encyclopedia.
>
> You may not be a construction guy, but wouldn't it be useful if you
> could say "Hmm, what are those standardized 1.5 inch square open metal
> channels used everywhere in construction?" and find [[Strut channel]]
> on Wikipedia.
>
> And a few thousand other construction things I haven't had time to add, yet.
>
> And engineering.
>
> All these specialized things are encyclopedic, and matter in the
> world, even if they're not geek-significant.  There's no reason not to
> define encyclopedic as inclusive of topics such as these.


You appear to be confusing "articles needed for normal applications of
encyclopedias." and encyclopedic. [[Nabu-apla-iddina]] is
encyclopedic, a Babylonian king no less, however history shows that
encyclopedias can function just fine without having an article on him.

-- 
geni