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

[Ray Saintonge]

On 04/08/11 5:55 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
> 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.
>
I like the idea, but even there you'll find varying degrees of support 
for each side with the moderates unable to accept any more extreme views.

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