On 12 August 2011 13:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter
<putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
My point is that making it easy to fork does not
create good competitors.
Good competitors come from elsewhere. And they will come, if we do not
deploy WISIWIG, not lower the entrance barrier for novices, not make it
harder to troll out respectable users, and not find a way to make
connections to academia or otherwise considerably improve the quality.
Oh, absolutely. The other thing they'd need is an actual sizable
editing community, big enough to take on the task. Citizendium failed
to achieve this, for example, and ended up deleting most of the
articles they'd forked from Wikipedia.
That assumes it's actually worth editing wikipedia on any scale at
this point. For most normal applications of encyclopedias it probably
isn't.