[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/19 David Levy <lifeisunfair at gmail.com>:
> David Goodman wrote:
>
>> The benefit is in getting users who would not be comfortable on
>> Wikipedia because of the perceived and real behavior problems on that
>> site--even if this is no worse ultimately than in the academic world,
>> the mode of interaction is certainly very different.
>
> In other words, users of the other websiite would modify Wikipedia's
> content without interacting with the Wikipedia-side users editing the
> same articles.  They would be isolated from concerns raised on talk
> pages and unable to discuss disagreements with Wikipedians.  In the
> case of a reversion or other contrary revision on Wikiepdia's end,
> they would be left to guess the rationale and either allow the changes
> to stand or revert them without knowledge of the reasons behind them
> or pertinent discussion/consensus among Wikipedians.  Edit wars would
> arise between two sets of users lacking insight into each other's
> ideas and the ability to cross-communicate.
>
> Please correct me if I've misunderstood something.

Yes, that's one of the problems I foresee. Either the site is mirrored
to such an extent that they can interact properly with the community,
in which case they might as well just be using the site itself, or it
isn't, in which case the whole thing won't work.