On 29 December 2010 08:24, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
To me (and
others), that leaves the question of what would happen if you wrote some
software that was actually built for making an encyclopedia, rather than the
jack of all trades product that MediaWiki is.
MediaWiki is precisely that software. And there's any number of
specialist wikis using it that are basically Wikipedia in a specialist
area.
This sounds like "software that looks to me on the surface like it was
actually built for making an encyclopedia". This is, of course, not at
all the same as success.
Note the number of competitors, forks and comolements that have
already beached having assumed "I can do a better Wikipedia if it fits
my idea of how an encyclopedia *should* look" and been dead wrong.
You're reasoning from the assumption of no knowledge, rather than one
of considerable knowledge.
- d.