[Foundation-l] Wikipedia and Wikimedia Software Prompt Solution to Problem Posed in 2000 by David Brin?
Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 05:11:55 UTC 2006
Hoi,
Two things:
* Wikipedia needs publicity badly. As long as many of our projects do
not cover encyclopaedic and other information well, there are MANY
projects that are in a genuine need for more contributors and also
readers. I am sure that the Neapolitan wikipedia would be thrilled to
bits to have 5 more regular contributors. It would grow the content a
lot and this in turn would increase the exposure of Neapolitan to many
people.
* Coding is done on LiquidThreads. This may help make a proposal like
yours interesting and relevant.. The publicity we could have: "hey guys,
we can still innovate".
Thanks,
GerardM
Michael R. Irwin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Some of you might find this article by David Brin (P,hd in Space Physics
> & SciFi Author) interesting:
> http://www.davidbrin.com/disputationarticle1.html
>
> He outlines a top down design to try to use the Internet as a
> collaborative discussion and thinking tool.
>
> It seems to me that the Wikimedia software and various projects
> utilizing some simple rules (NPOV, only one 32K article per subject or
> title, comprehensive history of revision, and the ever evolving
> community guidelines) allowed solutions meeting his basic criteria and
> goals to self organize.
>
> As a publicity drive or stunt we might consider inviting him to evaluate
> how well Wikipedia or some other Wikimedia project meets his proposed
> requirements for useful Internet sites on his website for his fans.
>
> Perhaps a good time (considering that Wikipedia hardly needs publicity
> drives considering its current success and maturity) would be after a
> few months of Wikiversity's authorized operation makes it clear that
> good ideas or material tends to float or stay on the current page of
> learning/study activities there; just like the best material and
> presentations drift to the current article or definition on Wikipedia
> and Wiktionary.
>
> I would be very interested in reactions or opinions why or why not
> Wikipedia currently meets or does not meet his stated goals or criteria
> for a "Disputation Arena".
>
> regards,
> lazyquasar
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