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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/12/2007, Andrew Whitworth
<wknight8111(a)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.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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