On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
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.