|From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:51:45 -0800 | |Larry Sanger wrote: |> The main reason for |> this is simply that that isn't what the many good people who signed up for |> the Nupedia project signed up for; they'd be furious if I tried to hijack |> their project that way, even if it's a project that isn't currently going |> anywhere. | |I'm considering a mass email to ask them what they want to do. I |think it's perfectly reasonable for us to offer to setup software for |them to start reviewing and approving articles from Wikipedia. I |can't imagine why they'd be furious about it. | |--Jimbo
Like many on the Wiki side, I've never warmed up to Nu, possibly because Wiki lets me write any article I want and Nu probably wouldn't let me write on any subject, what with my not being an expert on anything.
Nonetheless, it seems totally appropriate to solve this problem of incoherence and occasionally upsetting behavior (inherent in the nature of Wikipedia), by moving properly vetted, well-behaved, near-complete, shoe-and-shirt-wearing articles from Wikipedia to Nupedia.
I still think Wikipedia will continue to be the more interesting, active, and complete encyclopedia.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88