stevertigo wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
WP:SOHE being the page that you wrote recently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sourcehelpers
Did you not think of trying to make Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource
Exchange more active, rather than starting a new page and a new
proposal?
I thought about it. Different concept though, and with too many
bottlenecks. "Near identical" may have been overstated. Newer ideas
will have to avoid those same bottlenecks, and that's why I wrote up a
draft for a new idea. In certain ways we have to be open and openly
helpful about not just collaborative writing, but collaborative
source-finding. To some that seems to mean swinging from the
Britannica ideal toward the Google/PirateBay direction. I little bit
perhaps, but not all the way.
The philosophic roots of this view make sense, but how do we resolve the
opposing tendencies of bottlenecks on one side and dispersion of ideas
on the other?
And the "encyclopedia" (WP:ENC)
characterization is way overstated
anyway. Wikipedia's philosophy is entirely different from Britannica's
-- which doesn't even have articles about 'paid erection maintainers'
and 'stand-by penis alternates.' We on the other hand, do.
-Stevertigo
"Nothing we can't shake...
I really don't care whether Wikipedia has articles about what we can't
shake on the other hand. ;-)
Ec