Hoi, When you consider the size and the relevance of Wiktionary or Commons then I cringe when people equate the WMF with Wikipedia. Both are of a size and importance where they deserve an organisation of their own when the WMF is considered to be Wikipedia only. This is luckily not the case. It is however galling to have to continue to beat the drum...
THE WIKIPEDIA FOUNDATION IS NOT ONLY ABOUT WIKIPEDIA
Thanks, Gerard
On Dec 18, 2007 12:57 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/12/2007, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
Citizendium's small but not hurting for participants. They'll be fine.
That's not my point here. There is a certain number of people in this world who are going to be interested in actually "writing" an encyclopedia (as opposed to the people who are happy to edit, revise, or do other things to support the writing community).
Isn't one of the major lessons we've learned from the past six years of Wikipedia (seven now, I guess) that the number of people in the world interested in writing an encyclopedia is a lot bigger than we ever anticipated it being?
The one-author, one-page idea (from what I've heard knol is supposed to be) sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
Yes and no. It's workable, *if* there are other caveats which haven't been announced yet - some kind of weighting, structuring, etc. We shall see.
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