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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 20:51:45 UTC 2011


On 12 August 2011 20:53, 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.


Neither does Wikipedia. An encyclopedia is now "something like
Wikipedia." We are in indeterminate territory. The question we're
trying to answer in this subthread is "what would we use Wikipedia for
if it were there?"


- d.



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