Integrating Two Integrative Sites
Hi, I'm the webmaster and principal author of the Integration Website http://noosphere.cc. A fascinating thrill went through me when I discovered the Wikipedia Website and the Wiki Websites System in general.
The similarity in the purpose of this site and Wikipedia is striking: both sites aim at constructing, by open Internet cooperation, a thesaurus of integrative knowledge. Still, there are two differences: (1) the Wikipedia site uses an automated software, allowing visitors to edit existing pages online, while this site is manually edited, and (2) the Integration site features an advanced concept of integrative editing, while the Wiki system is described as "a collaborative project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia", and uses the "open content" paradigm. Although the Open Content approach is completely compatible with the Integration approach, the latter goes further because (1) it proposes a series of explicit editing rules (while the Wiki context is much more permissive, and its rules are more intuitive and inspired by common sense), and because (2) this Integration concept assumes that by respecting these rules, if adequately applied, a degree of plausibility probably comparable to scientific certitude can be reached.
As I describe in the Future of this Site page, integration with such an integrative site as Wikipedia will be sought. In a first stage I'll try to add progressively our contents to the Wikipedia site. If, for some reasons yet to discover, this kind of integration proves impossible, we'll try to start up a new Wiki-like site, or introduce the Wiki software into this site.
Any comments? Kris Roose 10 Nov 2002, 14.30 CET
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kris ROOSE" k@psy.cc To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:56 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Integrating Two Integrative Sites?
Integrating Two Integrative Sites
Sounds fine, Kris but please note that we use a very specific "integrative method", the Neutral Point Of View, and it's important that you realise how this works. In summary it attributes any disputed "facts" to that group which believes them to be true rather than stating outright that they are true or false in themselves. Only facts about which there is no dispute are assumed to be true and therefore unattributed.
If used properly it will allow seemingly contradictory parts of an article to be integrated. Please ensure that you know how it works before moving articles over to Wikipedia, since any Wikipedia articles which do not conform to NPOV will, sooner or later, be changed so that they do.
Cheers
Derek
Kris ROOSE wrote in part:
As I describe in the Future of this Site page, integration with such an integrative site as Wikipedia will be sought. In a first stage I'll try to add progressively our contents to the Wikipedia site. If, for some reasons yet to discover, this kind of integration proves impossible, we'll try to start up a new Wiki-like site, or introduce the Wiki software into this site.
If you add your contents to the Wikipedia, then they'll have to be changed to fit in with us. For instance, we will mercilessly edit it for NPOV, and probably make the writing read more formal. OTOH, if you start up your own wiki at your site, then you can maintain the content in your style, while still having the benefits of wiki editing. Then you can invite us to join your new wiki, if we like the way that *your* site works. The code is at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/.
-- Toby
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