On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I think this is in fact a market opportunity for a Metapedia. Import the organizational / title trees of all the publically available freely licensed encyclopedias, merge, present readers with alternate views / options / approaches to a particular topic. Optionally, display in parallel, Wikipedia next to Citizendum next to Otherpedia. Click on a hyperlink in any and it works across all the panes. Click on a focus tab for a particular pane and get the wider navigation / editing / etc tabs for that particular encyclopedia.
This is a wonderful idea! It could even make sense to have Metapedia as a Wikimedia project...an explicitly curatorial project that attempts to sort different kinds of content and evaluate strengths and weaknesses. It could also serve as a place to have general discussions about certain topics, without the necessity (as on Wikipedia talk pages, nominally) of focusing on content improvement; that's something that there's a need for, and something that causes specific projects to suffer because of the tendency of readers to try to start general discussions.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)