On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It's like the perennial proposal for multiple article versions on Wikipedia for each point of view. This solves a problem for the *writers*, but makes one for the *readers*. They seem to want one source with one article on a topic, else they'd just hit the top ten links in Google instead of going to Wikipedia. (Wikinfo has tried implementing this. Its readership is negligible compared to Wikipedia, but its writers enjoy it.)
Why do people want ten Wikipedias to look up instead of one? They observably don't - they want a source they can quickly look up something in that they can reasonably trust to be useful. They only go to multiple sources if that one starts sucking.
As a reader, this is exactly my subconscious opinion. I'm glad you nailed our subconscious thoughts. ;-)