On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:55:55 +0800, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
NSK wrote:
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:08, Mark Williamson wrote:
Uhhm... {{sofixit}}...
You could fix it very easily if:
- You make Wikipedia more attractive for experts, academics, scientists
- You make sure no article gets forgotten by encouraging people to concentrate
on their own articles, instead of editing here and there in the whole wiki
- You allow these people to put their names and biographies in the articles
they write
- You help these people collect some donations from their readership.
Wikimedia Foundation collects some donations for the servers, but it could also give some of it to the editors, too.
- You make the articles to have versions, and have a "frozen" (protected)
article in the mainspace, so that new contributions (which may be vandalism or whatever) go to an "under construction" version.
In our projects, such as http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org (now being migrated to better software), we are trying to find ways to implement these ideas. You can read some preliminary analysis for our IT wiki at http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process
The first, of course. The second, maybe. Depends on how well it jives with [[Wikipedia:Ownership of articles]]. The third, hell will freeze over before we do that.
Which is a pity, because it means we willfully go against the GNU/FDL.
The fourth, there's a slight chance, but I doubt we could work out the logistics even if we wanted to. The fifth, the community is still deciding on that.
Andre Engels