Open-site.org has almost no content. Let's let them go their way and we go ours. Let a thousand flowers bloom (or wither).
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
|From: Magnus Manske magnus.manske@epost.de |X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:34:24 +0100 | |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. | |Magnus | |_______________________________________________ |Wikipedia-l mailing list |Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |