On 12/08/06, Gareth Hughes ([[User:Garzo]]) garzohugo+wiki@gmail.com wrote:
There are a few good points in the blog (let's not call it an essay!). I particularly like the description of Wikipedia as a 'semi-anarchic feudal state'. Perhaps we should put that on a banner somewhere — your fiefdom or mine? The comparison of Wikipedia with Linux distributions is a bit misplaced. The main objection to this approach is that, simply put, they are very different beasties. One has to do with facts and information, the other has to do with software programmes. How would we modularise the article on [[cactus]]? Extracting anything more useful from this is dasht difficult.
Some categories would make useful modules. In print form we've been calling these "wikireaders."
- d.