At 06:12 PM 3/19/02 +0200, you wrote:
On Monday 18 March 2002 23:57, Lars Aronsson wrote:
I'm trying to understand where the boundaries for Wikipedia are. Forgive me if this gets philosophical, and not very practical.
Could a Wiki devoted to history have a place outside of Wikipedia? When describing London, it would focus on the city's historic features, not on the facets of today's London. Then again, Wikipedia's entries on many things are focused on history. It is almost as if Wikipedia is that history Wiki. History, after all, is so much more in line with the contents of an encyclopedia than is object-oriented software development.
Assuming FDL for all instances, perhaps cut'n'pasting from a history wiki into wikipedia might be easier than the other way round.
Could a leftist-point-of-view Wiki exist side by side with Wikipedia?
Only on the sinister side ... <g> <<OK, how many of you figured that one out?>>
It would carefully point out any misuse of power
You mean as in [[Stalin]], [[Pol Pot]], [[Mao]] . . . ?
As in Emma Goldman pointing out the flaws of socialist Russia around 1920. Or were you thinking of the way the U.S. allied with [[Stalin]]? (This stuff really isn't one-sided, and I'm getting tired of reading left-bashing on a completely unrelated thread.)
, and list activist and political groups.
Expect lots and lots of vandalism.
A valid and important point. On the other hand, the wiki model can be used in less open-to-everyone modes than the wikipedia.
A youth culture Wiki might list all the hot dance clubs in London, but
Feasible, but youth "culture" changes so quickly that you might as well start from scratch every two years or so.
What you'd do, I think, is change as it went: add new clubs, edit/update descriptions, remove those that had closed (or tag them as "closed, here are some historic notes").