On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:10, geni wrote:
Apoligies you arived in the middle of a seperate discussion that has had some side effects.
No problem, I understand. :)
My point about not coming to copy or steal was that I have no interest in being redundant, rather I want all new information to be extentions of the current knowledge base, well integrated and highly interlinked with what already has been done very well within Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia a lot!
Problems with finding an editorbase. The foundation doesn't have much in the way of a history of doing single issue projects. there appears to be a general bias against them amoung the various wikimedia editor bases since they tend to duplicat the work of either wikipedia or wikibooks.
What do you mean by an editorbase? Do you simply mean people who will be willing experts, authors and editors of content? Perl has a well established community of experts, authors and editors, and if "The Perl Wiki" is built correctly, then they will come to take advantage of a very good thing and extend it into an even better thing for themselves and others to learn from. That has been the perl.advocacy usenet discussion, about building the central reference Wiki, from the various specialized Wiki sites around the world, to create the global wiki for the Perl community. And Wikibooks will be a must have component for the Perl community. Something magic might happen.
I know what you mean about not having a history yet, but that doesn't mean that there can't be a new precedent set here. The people at Wikimedia are doing something new in our information history, you are opening new doors, and I think that I found a door that might possibly get to be opened someday, not just for the Perl community, but for all global communities. The reason that I came to Wikimedia today is because I want to make sure that whatever I want to do conforms to Wikimedia's wishes. The last thing that I want to do is have a negative impact upon what they have been doing so well. Is their a correct structure that will work, for us to work together?
What is an encyclopedia going to become, with Wikpedia setting a new functional standard? How much breadth and how much depth does Wikimedia want in Wikipedia? I don't think that Wikimedia has any real concern for the breadth of topics, but I do want to understand the practical limits on the depth of a particular topic, in this case, the Perl topic. I do want to understand how we might be able to work together correctly to set a new standard.
Setting up a new type of project within the foundation is a slow process. You best bet is probably either to stick with the articles on wikipedia and wikibooks or to start your own project on one of the various free wiki hosts or your own server.
I made reference to what I had learned about the new project policy, saying that I was aware that it could take years to bring an idea to fruition. But, I don't see it as what you think of as a new project, but more of an integration of all the Wikipedia components available to solve a Perl community problem. What can we do together in parallel?
Eric