Domas Mituzas wrote:
I somehow stay at the idea that there's more freedom, when you can edit wikipedia without owning a mirror. Unless you want to fork ;-)
I think that's what I was talking about. I forked and now there exists a Cherokee Wikipedia and soon a Uto-Aztecan Wikipedia. Read http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Clans. Forking is how we established settlements all over the Southeast in ancient times - banishment was a good thing -- a sign of new beginnings. Forking seeds new communities -- without the conflict.
Now strings are defined by community, as community supports Wikipedia. I'm not CFO, so I'm quite happy about that ;-)
I thought they were defined by Society and Economics? The community unfortunately apparantly operates in a vacuum (based on my empirical observation) and does not seem to listen to the outside world much. Society seems to awaken it once in a while with USA today articles, then it scratches, rolls over, and goes back to sleep to the outside world. Not a bad model for keeping focus, but one that prevents its members from seeing the forest for all the trees -- reminds me of the old Novell culture in the mid 1990s which was also a self contained isolated island in the middle of Utah Valley.
Wikify the world? Intentions are clear, now the methods are not. I guess concepts of distributed wikis might be better discussed at wikitech-l rather than foundation-l. There it would be really more on topic!
BR,
I find I work better alone on projects like these until the dinner is prepared and ready to serve. I am happy to share, but I want to get 98% of the way there before I have to deal with the organizational issues. I've done this stuff for 25 years and people slow me down at times.
All my Wikilove,
Jeff