Hi Taku,
the only thing that annoyed me was the "code in wiki" idea. Everything
else is debatable.
I agree. If you remember, isn't it good idea to
rename
wikipedia software *or* set up a independent wiki for it?
Rename - yeah, makes sense. When I suggested Wikipedia in some contexts,
people were frightened by the encyclopedia-notion, which would not be
appropriate for their project. (For example, the Open Source Applications
Foundation decided to use the inferior TWiki software for this reason,
among others.) But please, no endless name debate on wikitech. This is
exactly what meta is for.
One advantage of the Wikipedia name is that it might make people more
willing to participate. "Oh, the Wikipedia wiki? Sure, I'd love to help
with that." But I don't know how strong that argument is. I'm not opposed
to a name change.
Independent wiki - I don't really see the point. Meta works, we just need
to define it properly (for the record, I absolutely encourage you to clean
it up, and I don't think it should be used for personal essays, sorry,
Anthere). Using subpages on Meta might also help for organization.
If you can't convince people to clean up Meta, ask me for help ;-)
> We need to make the Wikipedia-code
Wikipedia-independent.
That is exactly what I meant before (but not all
though). If
wikipedia software becomes more independent, it makes more
sense to seprate development process from meta-wikipedia.
That's only a valid argument if you move it really away, say, to another
server.
hacker.wikipedia.org would *still* be associated with Wikipedia.
We probably do not want such an almost complete separation, though --
people who work on the Wikipedia software will hopefully also be
encouraged to work on Wikipedia, instead of cloning it.
(I bet no one advocates all of my ideas are wrong
because I
am ignorant, which I admit)
Become a Wikipedia hacker! Free yourself from ignorance! :-)
What are OpenFacts?
Wikipedia-like wiki specifically for open source documentation
maintenance. Will probably be officially launched next week. There will
also be Wikipedia-based wikis for two other projects I'm working on.
Regards,
Erik