[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Bryan Derksen]

The Mangoe wrote:
> This has topic-drifted like mad, so please excuse this as being a
> collection of utterly unrelated material.
> 
> One of the things that has bothered me is the way in which Wikipedia
> has tended to attempt to take over from more specialized efforts which
> are surely more authoritative than anything we can produce.

Unless these specialized efforts are also NPOV and under the GFDL (or 
similar CC licence) there really is a benefit to be gained in 
reinventing that particular wheel.

> It would be nice to come up with some way to turn
> ourselves into a portal to the good (meaning reliable) stuff for these
> subjects.

In terms of being able to organize and integrate the information it's 
hard to beat the benefit of simply incorporating it directly into Wikipedia.

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