While I appreciate the sincerity of your opinion mav
-- the question of purpose remains (as Danny stated)
Where is the impetus for dividing up Wiki energies?
That these efforts would go toward feeding something
else is almost irrelevant -- people can already take
what they want *now, (provided FDL) -- why should the
WP community put its energy into dividing its own
community into tiers, classes, and camps? Life is
full-enough of classes, tiers, and camps, -- let
someone else set up an Web encyclopedia with
peer-reviews and feel-good stamps of authority. They
can call it whatever they want. ( Maybe theres one or
two out there already. ) As for playing "Jesus" to
the supposedly "Lazarus" Nupedia -- don't beat a dead
horse.
Whats it trying to prove? It seems the only answer to
that is to get non-believers to join Wiki-related (not
actually Wiki) efforts , by changing the Wiki belief
that got us all here in the first place. The highest
principles -- FREEDOM/DEMOCRACY/OPENSOURCE -- embodied
in a body of world community knowledge. This stuff is
going on the *Ark, my friend.
Your idea seems to be like saying: (*exaggerated for
effect) 'Let's get more people to join our
congregation by putting a casino/brothel in the
basement!' The philosophy of WP is not something that
can just be turned around and made to mingle with the
non-believer notions that "the Wikipedia is not
authoritative." Sca-rew them. That notion, again,
only comes from people 1. who've never believed in the
Wiki faith, or 2. have lost the faith, or whos faith
is slipping.
And, sincerely -- I mean none of this personally --
the comment about your 'choice of projects' was merely
an echo of your comment previous.
Respectfully,
-S-
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