Unwikipedia sounds too much like Uncyclopedia. ;/
On 8/5/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Seems like a cool idea. But given any "Wikipedia 1.0" agenda, and putting aside for a moment the aspects of being entirely unwiki and oxymoronical, there are a few general ways that this could take shape AISI:
- Unwikipedia academic fork: Separate parallel wiki
with Google ads and paid academics working on polishing wikipedia articles. Code would allow for easy viewing and merging of Wikipedia and Unwikipedia articles
- Ghost of Nupedia (aka. Nupedia's Monster): On-wiki
institution of Nupedia-style credentialism. Ranking of academic degrees by type: conservative American Ivy League institutions first, everyone else second, all the way down to mail-order degrees from North Korea.
- Perma-Protectionism: Sysops are pruned by
credentialsm (or less so trust), and allowed to protect and lock pages at will, banning anyone who even hints at a crackpot theory, poor spelling, or youthful ignorance.
- Paranoid Web of Trust: People get ranks (in addition
to barnstars) and parade them proudly. Everyone sucks up to the Board members, and they eventually get military-style badges made to pin on their (c)&™ Wikimedia Nohat-logo sweatshirts.
- PATRIOT ACT : Uniting and Strengthening Wikipedia by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Trollism Act of 2005
-SV
--- Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Zachary Harden wrote:
And how can we mark it as even nice? A template
could disrupt the
page, but IMHO, any type of mark on the article
page is just asking
for trouble. Plus, I still do not know how can one
define a "done"
article on here and how many will be protected on
a trial basis.
Something based on the version rating system that almost got enabled in the most recent version of WikiMedia would be best, IMO - it's my understanding that the basic code is all there, it just needs tweaking and polishing. Trying to kludge something together with the existing functions probably wouldn't work well since there's no way to attach arbitrary metadata to specific versions of a page. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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