[WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

[MuZemike]

That wouldn't solve anything, except further draw a hard line and create 
an even larger rift between editors. If we strive to be an "open 
community" where we bring people together, then we would collectively be 
making it more closed by doing this.

-MuZemike

On 4/8/2011 1:26 PM, David Goodman wrote:
> I've also suggested this, calling it  '''Wikipedia Two'' - an
> encyclopedia supplement where the standard of notability  is much
> relaxed, but which will be different from Wikia by still requiring
> WP:Verifiability, and NPOV. It would include the lower levels of
> barely  notable articles in Wikipedia, and the upper levels of a good
> deal of what we do not let in.  It would for example include both high
> schools and elementary schools. It would include college athletes. It
> would include political candidates. It would include neighborhood
> businesses, and fire departments.  It would include individual
> asteroids. It would include anyone who had a credited role in a film,
> or any named character in one--both the ones we currently leave out,
> and the ones we put in.  This should satisfy both the inclusionists
> and the deletionists. The deletionists will have this material out of
> Wikipedia, the inclusionists will have it not rejected.
>
> But it would be interesting to see a search option:
> Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the notable(W)?
> Anyone care to guess which people would choose?
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