-----Original Message----- From: geni [mailto:geniice@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 05:48 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium
On 1/17/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
but sometimes "how do we organize this information" is a much harder problem, often requiring professional help.
We get by. The answer appears to be "in as may ways as posible".
-- geni
That is really an excellent answer. Most of the trouble we have results from trying to impose some pattern on knowledge, which, as we know, wants to be free.
Fred
On 1/17/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
From: geni [mailto:geniice@gmail.com] On 1/17/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
but sometimes "how do we organize this information" is a much harder problem, often requiring professional help.
We get by. The answer appears to be "in as may ways as posible".
That is really an excellent answer. Most of the trouble we have results from trying to impose some pattern on knowledge, which, as we know, wants to be free.
Yeah, I agree. I wasn't trying to suggest that WP has any problem with this. We're flexible enough that we've accommodated most of the reasonable ways of looking at taxonomy, and the organization stuff works ok.
But the way it's evolved has had a lot of input from experts helping with the taxonomy...