On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little
specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
easier to start, without having to start yet another wiki-based
general encyclopedia that directly competes with Wikipedia. Disruptive
innovation starts in niches, not in a position where it'll just end up
a bug on Wikipedia's windscreen.
Some things I believe could be easily programmed:
* Ability to surf through multiple wikis. For example, you could be
reading article on a specialist wiki such as
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29 ; upon clicking the
link Gilgamesh, you would be taken to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh ; when you further browse
Wikipedia and click on Star Trek you would go not to Wikipedia's article
but back to
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek .
Already in the inventory. In practice on wikipedia we normally assume
that when you click on an inline link in wikipedia you go to the
wikipedia article on that subject. For non wikipedia wikis to inline
link to wikipedia for more general background is pretty common though.
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geni