On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/4/21 Chet Hoover <chet.hoover(a)yahoo.com>om>:
Citizendium can just hang on, and stick around,
because it's far less
about its success over Wikipedia than it is about an
environment in which
serious-minded people with the werewithal can write about important
subjects.
So it's all about the writing? I would have though the important thing
was the reading. Wikipedia is all about spreading free knowledge - if
no-one reads what you write, there is no point writing it.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. This is a fallacy we see over and over:
"Wikipedia would be so
much better if you did X for the writers." Whereas that doesn't serve
the readers, so is why we don't do it.
"If no one reads what you write, there is no point writing it." Is that
something most Wikipedians would agree with? There really ought to be a
Wikiversity course on this stuff. I think it's essential reading for anyone
who wants to be a Wikipedian.