On Saturday 31 August 2002 10:54 pm, Larry wrote:
The problem is that, with several notable exceptions,
highly-educated
people aren't drawn to Wikipedia.
I don't know about everyone else but I think that statement was a bit
insulting.
So I don't propose we touch Wikipedia--but we have
Nupedia. What I hope
is that Nupedia can be changed and rearranged, somehow, to create an elite
board of bona fide experts that is ultimately in charge of "releases" of
free encyclopedia content.
Or we can simply revisit the idea of Beta/Stable; whereby some type of
process validates an article. Having another level of validation through
Nupedia would also be a good thing. In that way Nupedia would be a
distribution of Wikipedia in the same way as Red Hat is a distribution of
Linus' Linux and the GNU tools.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)