[WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

[Ray Saintonge]

On 04/08/11 3:09 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> We will still have a niche in languages they aren't interested in, and
> among people who care about copyright. But my suspicion is that we are
> unusual, and that most potential editors are more annoyed by having
> their contributions rejected by deletionists than by something in the
> small print that says their words now belong to the website they've
> written them on.
>
> ...
>
> Other options would be for a site that ended the
> inclusionism/deletionism conflict by abandoning notability and
> concentrating on verifiability or aiming for comprehensiveness. That
> seems to work for IMDB but possibly you need to restrict this to
> specialist pedias - aiming for coverage of all films and their cast is
> one thing, but on a general pedia you need to set a threshold
> somewhere unless you are prepared to have articles for pet guinea
> pigs.
>

I'd like to see a Wikisource type project that accepts orphan works 
(subject to definition) that are supposedly still protected. They could 
easily be taken down if a legitimate owner materializes, but otherwise 
could accelerate the freeing of these works.

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