A note on status of Internet-Encyclopedia. Be down for a while while Mysql issues are resolved. But in response:
I'm not internationally unfriendly, just fluent in American English. And see that as the de facto linqua franca. We'll just have to see if point of view articles work out in practice. Folks would have to repond to a point of view article not by editing it to change the point of view but by writing a new article from a new point of view.
Internet-encyclopedia contemplates editors continuing to participate actively in wikipedia anyway. Otherwise they would lose touch with both the other editors, who are potential internet-encyclopedia editors, with the content of articles and their history. It is only through that involvement that articles in internet-encyclopedia could reflect the best of what is in Wikipedia and add value to it.
It is contemplated that while on Wikipedia, editors would follow the NPOV standard. I would never have asked to be a sysop if I was not willing to do that while on Wikipedia.
It's interesting how much I have adopted some of Larry's ideas (butting heads with him was probably my main motivation for doing Internet-Encyclopedia). I think there is a case for selecting well-done articles and presenting them in an alternative format. (He called that "sifting") Also I think there is case for real experts should they choose to edit being accorded a certain respect and exemption from the hurly burly of wiki process, hence the notion of signed articles, which would be exempt from the normal editing process, (although a parallel article on the same subject could still exist).
Will it fail? I certainly hope it is only a modest success, not sure I could afford a big success like Wikipedia.
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:42:38 -0800 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] internet-encyclopedia.info
I think this is great, then. I don't personally think it will be very successful, but I think that the experimentation made possible by GNU licensing is exciting and interesting.
Also you can't go GNU and expect no one to ever use it.
Right, I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought otherwise.
Here's what I think: for *us*, NPOV and international-friendliness are core values. If people agree with those things, but want to fork for some other reason, I hope that we can find ways to resolve the issue and keep everyone together, for the good of the project.
But if people want to fork for other purposes, that's fine, and I won't try to talk them out of it.
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