David Gerard wrote:
On 26/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/25/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I think NPOV is pretty innovative.
Agreed... and publicly accessible revision controlled webpages.
That was Ward Cunningham's ;-) (Did his do version control?)
Heck, even ours doesn't properly do version control. You can't branch, tag, ...
Hrm. Anyone want to re-implement MediaWiki with a /real/ version control back end?
Wanna take bets on which of the two will have a greater influence on the world outside wikipedia a decade from now? :)
I think NPOV is more powerful than is usually appreciated. To harp on slightly, it's quite the powerful innovation in writing about Scientology, for example.
I wonder, what has made Wikipedia so popular? That we're NPOV, or that we're a wiki? For some reason, people seem to think that "Wikipedia" is a generic term to describe a wiki ("They have their own Wikipedia"), or that "Wiki" is our name ("Please let me post this on Wiki"), or something...