Tesla Coil wrote:
On 4 Sep 2002, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
There was a notion of teaming up groups of Wikipedians around some areas of Wikipedia content - operating systems, unix, punk rock or the Roman Empire.
They should have some infrastructure (namespace ? mailing list ?) to rely on in order to coordinate, review and discuss. Not to mention do some planning and quality assurance.
What happened to this idea? Against this suggestion, so much talk of "experts" appears a wish that collective intelligence will arrive as embodied by individuals and spare the problem of acheiving better organization of it in social form.
This sounds like a natural extension of the WikiProjects that are already floating around.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)