On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:22:25PM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
That is a total strawman Lars - I expect better
from you.
First, IMDb is NOT a Wikimedia project.
I'm sorry. When I said Wikispecies should probably best develop
separately from Wikipedia (but with a compatible license), I assumed
it would not be a Wikimedia project. I didn't spell this out, and
neither did you spell out your contrary assumption. Or at least I
didn't understand so.
Still, if I started a semiconductor wiki, where I tried to document
every transistor since the [[AF107]] (Germanium, PNP, high frequency,
circa 1961), I think my articles would be thrown out of the main
Wikipedia pretty soon, and I should develop this idea in my own,
separate project. The depth of such a project is too specialized to
fit within a general encyclopedia and I suspect that the same would go
for Wikispecies, if it is successful.
To use a more concrete example, see
http://senseis.xmp.net/
This is valid encyclopedic knowledge, but it's very specialized
and needs many features not provided by Wikipedia.
Some of its content will probably end on Wikipedia, but
there's a good reason why it's developed separately.