On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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. ;-)
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023