[Foundation-l] A prerequisite for the neutral, notable sum of all human knowledge

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Ray Saintonge, 30/07/2010 12:14:
> Brian J Mingus wrote:
>> The WMF mission is to provide free knowledge to the world. Wikipedia, in
>> particular, hopes to summarize all notable topics into a neutral sum.
>>
>> Accomplishing this goal means Wikipedia an the WMF will have to evolve.
>> Consider the implications of the mission: Every single work that contains
>> notable topics must have complete coverage in Wikipedia. While every article
>> need not cite every work, every article must accurately summarize every
>> notable opinion of every notable topic in every work.
>>   
> 
> In its broad strokes I must say from the outset that I strongly support 
> the WikiCite notion.  Nevertheless, I think that there are a lot of 
> pitfalls in the development of this idea.  To begin with your use of the 
> term "notable" is somewhat disquieting.

Indeed. Brian, are you thinking about some reputation system? (But I 
suppose we had moved the discussion to wiki-research-l.)

Nemo