On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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)