Kim van der Linde wrote
What is nicer than to
work with some experts in that field to create good quality articles.
Before I even came to WP, in 2003, I had spent a year intensively (as it seemed at the
time) editing another wiki (Sensei's Library, the go wiki). That has some special
features, in particular that the centre of real expertise in the world is not at all
anglophone. Still, although I edit there now, the experience left me with a distruct of
quasi-wiki structures. (I even wrote a Meatball Wiki page about the set-up.)
Basically in go you have a grade, and the editor with the lower grade should defer. But it
turns out that this is too static a system to really be satisfactory: not enough hard
editing goes on. That wiki is dominated, to this day, by thread-mode discussion, and has
never made it to 'encyclopedic' as understood at WP. There is plenty of good
stuff, but the whole place is _insufficiently_ ruthless in hacking it about.
I do prefer WP, vexing though it may be. I bring this all up because if good manners were
all there was to it, Sensei's Library would be a shining example.
Charles
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