On 1/9/03 1:34 PM, "Magnus Manske" magnus.manske@epost.de wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
Why should I waste an afternoon researching an article, if someone at this other project might have done the same already? Why should someone at that project put time into writing articles from scratch, when we already have them?
I do not think that competition is necessarily healthy.
Because they may be better.
Because it is fun.
It's my way or the highway that is not healthy, not competition.
Variety is the spice of life.
Variety is good, but I don't see a point in just *writing* an article on a topic if there's already an article somewhere else, available under the same (?) conditions, that can be changed or expanded. Two varieties of the same topic would also be bad for the user, because he'd have to look up both. We'd be back to the "encyclopedia google", eventually ;-)
Where variety would be useful is in the *presentation* and *reliability*. That's why I suggested the merge of that new project with the not-really-existing Sifter.
So do you agree that we shouldn't be duplicating the effort of planetmath.org?