2008/1/3, Samuel Wantman <sam(a)wantman.net> wrote off-list and later
gave me permission to reply on-list:
...
I agree with you that this should not be on a
commercial site. It should
be part of Wikipedia. Anything outside of Wikipedia is a backwater. I ask
everyone I meet if they've been to Wikipedia. They all say they have. Then
I ask them if they have ever been to Wikinews, Wiktionary or Wikia. Not a
single person I have asked has even heard of Wikia. A very large majority
have never been to any of the other Wikimedia projects. Anything moved from
Wikipedia is moved into obscurity.
I agree 100%. Like you say, if it's not on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist.
Then again, some people will still want their stuff to be on
Wikipedia, not Extrapedia, but this will at least help avoid
[[WP:BITE]]'ing newcomers who write articles about non-notable topics.
But still, I think this could help.
I already have a domain (
Wikifree.org) and would host
such a site, but I
would rather see this happen as part of Wikipedia.
I, too, would rather it be done under the aegis of the Wikimedia
Foundation. Though I wonder if it'd really be practical to rally
enough support to get it approved.
Cheers,
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