On 03/01/07, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 8:53:30 PM, Angela wrote:
http://internet.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Angela&oldid=1943 shows 17 examples of pages you deleted today which I've rescued for the Internet Wiki, but it's a shame so many hundreds like those are being deleted every day rather than moved to a more suitable wiki or rewritten to make them suitable for Wikipedia.
Maybe there should be some way to mark the articles which are not notable for wikipedia, but are worthy to be included in internet.wikia.com
For example, one would include "I7W" (non-notable website) as reason for deletion and a bot would monitor the deletion log and take the deleted articles marked that way and automatically post them on internet Wikia.
I don't really understand why an article would be useful for Internet Wikia but not useful for us... Their aims seem to be encompassed by our aims entirely.
I go to Internet Wikia to find some information out about a website (eg. http://www.internet.com/). I want factually accurate, verifiable information. Why shouldn't I use Wikipedia in this case? I know that information from Wikipedia will be factually accurate and verifiable. I know that Wikipedia does not operate within the constraints of a traditional encyclopaedia so I hope to find at least a little information about that website on Wikipedia.
The very purpose of Internet Wikia (providing "encyclopaedic" articles about presumably major websites) could, and should, be served by Wikipedia. Information is always enriched by being part of Wikipedia because it links to information and articles on unrelated fields. Conversely, Wikipedia is always enriched by having more information (within certain constraints).