On 13-06-2001, Jimmy Wales wrote thusly :
Thank you for your voice in the discussion, Jim. I think we should talk more
about Wikipedia structure and functioning. I have a funny feeling that we
might be overwhelmed by the project's magnitude some time in the future.
Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
Are we for a democracy or freedom/anarchy ?
At some point when Wikipedia reaches a critical mass there should be some
democratic Editorial Board. It could even freeze some pages for some time.
If you say no to the Editorial Board some democratic rules should be set in
stone.
While I'm a much bigger fan of freedom and anarchy, I'm also in
favor of Wikipedia
being run for the benefit of the community of authors, which means that we should
work in a friendly way to reach a consensus about where we want to go and how we
want to control the community in the long run.
Probably _the_ most astounding fact about Wikipedia is that it is so
good without any formal rules or restrictions at all. There are
social customs and social pressures that do a really good job of
keeping things in line.
This is a second wonderful thing about Wikipedia, next to
"wiki magic".
But someday, we will have to move beyond that. As the
site gets more popular,
it will attract vandals, and so we'll need to lock down the front page, or somehow
*gently* raise the barriers to entry... but we'll want to be very cautious to not
upset the "wiki magic".
For the time being all pitfalls of large collaborative projects have been
bypassed. What do you think about web democracy in the form of online
polls ?
End point.
Can someone please tell me what's the end point/goal of Wikipedia ?
Don't tell there no end-point and this is eternal task ;-)
One answer -- and
maybe not a very satisfactory one -- is that the
goal of Wikipedia is fun for the contributors. If something cool
emerges out of our playing with knowledge, all the better. But if it
isn't fun for the contributors, it will die.
Are you saying Wikipedia is a toy
thing and Nupedia the real one ???
This (along with the free license) that guarantees that I'll continue to
be a "benevolent" monarch to the project. If I decided unilaterally to make
some changes that upset the contributors, that'd pretty much kill the growth
of the project. My goal is to prevent fragmentation or "forking" by working
hard to keep as many people happy as I can.
RDF
Wikipedia - patchy with some articles for students, some for laymen and
some for university professors ?
Or branch out into Kid's Wikipedia, Regular Wikipedia, Highbrow Wikipedia.
I
think these are great ideas.
Larry Sanger addressed this in a separate thread and it
is beginning to
take shape.
Target audience - should be redirected :
Kid's Wikipedia
Wikipedia - normal people ;)
Nupedia - Highbrow Wikipedia (BTW what kind of relation is there between Nupedia and
Wikiepdia ? Is Nupedia going to take over content of Wikiepdia
and put under editorial scrutiny ? )
Regards,
kpj.
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