niht-hræfn wrote:
On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:17, Erik Moeller wrote:
I don't think Wikipedia should be an encyclopedia that connects everything to The Simpsons somehow. Do we need a "Wikitrivia" project (or perhaps this idea can be abstracted in a more useful fashion) to collect all the meaningless pop cultural crap, or is existing policy sufficient to remove it?
There's definitely a Simpsons wikia (http://simpsons.wikia.com/ - needs a good kick in the pants though), but I'm not sure what the community feels about linking to Wikia, etc. As far as I know/knew, Wikia is/was sort of meant to be a place for more... specialist... "encyclopedias", although it focuses more on communities, etc. It's also an entirely different can of worms, and often article quality is... less than good. But it's a thought. Maybe.
Wikia is a totally empty suggestion to the people adding this sort of content. It is basically saying "why don't you go put this somewhere (unassociated with wikipedia) where there will never be any Internet traffic to it." Wikipedia had passed some sort of tipping point and that draws editors who want to be involved. The original suggestion that when we needed it we created wikiquotes and wikisource etc was that if we could make a place with the same prestige as wikipedia where we could put the pop culture (And link to it form within wikipedia for those who want to see it (and trust me some people want to read the pop culture articles)) then we could solve this problem.
That said if you call it wikitrivia not a single one of your Buffy editors will touch it. If the goal is to move some of the lower notability, lower interest content somewhere then, you have to attract those editors there. It cannot sound ... well ... trivial, even if you think it is. I think it is a good idea, even though wikipopculture sounds dumb and wikiculture is misleading so I am not sure what you would call it. Either way the key is that it has to on some something that you can link to with one of those cute little boxes that we get for wikiquote, and it has to still basically be wikimedia in stile only with notability rules, and styling that are a bit different.
SKL