I think this is a classic example of feature bloat.
Yes, recipes are neat.
Yes, a Wikicookbook is neat.
But recipes, well, there's an awful lot of them. And I can just imagine the NPOV fights on them. (Chile with or without beans? Chocolate chip cookies with nuts? White or dark meat chicken? Does a dash of cumin improve the dish?) And they're not something that most people would think to go to an encyclopedia about.
Not every good thing should go into the Wikipedia. If it tries to do everything, it only serves to obsure the things it genuinely does well with. The fact that wikibooks is not as successful as the English encyclopedia does not negate it. It means that more work needs to be done. Should we kill the foreign language encyclopedias for their failure to do as well as the English one too, and just have all the foreign language articles in one main encyclopedia?
Yes, our recipe coverage on wikibooks is not great. Perhaps if the people fighting over whether we should move them to the encyclopedia were to go and add some recipes, though, it would do better.
-Snowspinner
On Oct 9, 2004, at 1:51 PM, Rick wrote:
Aren't most recipes copyrighted?
RickK
Matthew Larsen mat.larsen@gmail.com wrote: I agree that recipies should be included in the main wikipedia - providing they are not stupid and do actually work. I would love to give a shot at cooking things (Delia Smith gets on my tits) and anything to help me learn to cook would be great.
This may lead to edit wars with people fiddling each others recipies, so this will have to be watched.
Mabye a wikirecipies site?
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 03:35:51 -0400, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:05:17 -0400, Delirium wrote:
I'd say a fairly high percentage of our articles on drugs have something that at least one government will find objectionable, so we'd have to tag pretty much all of them.
This might not be a terrible idea. It should be as easy as possible to provide various views of the encyclopedia which are inoffensive, in turn, to a) governments, b) children, c) the pious, etc. Giving reusers the ability to choose a limited subset of encyclopedia content is not censorship (though one might argue that it makes targeted censorship easier). I can think of a few cases in which I would find it appropriate to remove "a fairly high percentage of our articles on drugs," among other things, from a particular snapshot or CD.
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