[WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

[Mike Dupont]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> A fork could
> easily start with copied material which from that moment would evolve
> differently. They may choose to abandon NPOV.  Having several sites that
> freely and independently do this would in fact put our own NPOV in a
> broader perspective.
>

What do you think about having multiple consistent points of view on tricky
subjects, on some things, for example my favorite kosovo topic, it is very
very hard to find any neutral point of view and the articles on that subject
are widely separated. Some like the main article are vaguely neutral, and
most of the smaller articles are really not. There are not even any
consistent policing of them or manpower to do it.
I would like to see some way to identify and isolate fragments of things
that are not neutral, but clearly mark on what point of view they represent.
That would allow for a clear separation of the one side, "Kosovo is serbia"
and marking and clearly giving them a say on the matter, and also another
point of view, "Kosovo is free" with equal rights in speaking, at least that
would give a way to manage the discussion. Right now you have a big mess
where the two sides are just mixed up and each side is basically fighting on
wikipedia.

mike