On 03/11/2007, Phoenix wiki phoenix.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, a thing like a good article template would be good. Spooky how this email came right after I requested a Veropedia account
I really like the idea of Veropedia, and that their "donate here" link actually tells you to give your money to WMF if you like Veropedia ;-) Danny's been all about quality improvement for a long while, and Veropedia is certainly a step up from the usual plain mirror-site-with-Google-ads. That the Veropedia improvement mechanism is to improve the Wikipedia article is good too.
That said, I'm not sure I wouldn't just look stuff up on Wikipedia as usual. (Yes, I do use Wikipedia as a convenient encyclopedia now, whereas I wouldn't have when I started with it ... maybe on technical topics.) But then, I hardly look up an article these days without performing at least a minor touch-up edit on it.
What do others think of Veropedia? In particular, what do you think would make people want to look stuff up at Veropedia first?
- d.