It's instructive to look at the history of Everything2 -- clearly there is *some* lower limit on the notability of concepts that can be included, because if there isn't you eventually get articles called "what is your favorite color" and containing "blue ~~~ green ~~~ yellow! ~~~" On everything2, these were called "getting-to-know-you nodes" and purged relatively early on.
But that particular lower bar is very, very low. Even an article called "my cat howie" is more encyclopedic.
Wikipedia is uniquely positioned to be an engine of more general wiki growth, where articles at its defined lower limit are siphoned off somewhere else. If that sort of thing is implemented properly, with the possibility of easily moving stuff in and out (and leaving a trail), it could be very cool.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/03/2008, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
and scope.
Which should be "everything that exists."
We already have that project under way. It's called the 'Internet'.
Please feel free to use it instead of projects that try for more uniformly higher quality such as the wikipedia.
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Kurt Weber kmw@armory.com
-- -Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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