[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

[geni]

On 12 August 2011 13:47, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 August 2011 13:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
>
>> My point is that making it easy to fork does not create good competitors.
>> Good competitors come from elsewhere. And they will come, if we do not
>> deploy WISIWIG, not lower the entrance barrier for novices, not make it
>> harder to troll out respectable users, and not find a way to make
>> connections to academia or otherwise considerably improve the quality.
>
>
> Oh, absolutely. The other thing they'd need is an actual sizable
> editing community, big enough to take on the task. Citizendium failed
> to achieve this, for example, and ended up deleting most of the
> articles they'd forked from Wikipedia.

That assumes it's actually worth editing wikipedia on any scale at
this point. For most normal applications of encyclopedias it probably
isn't.


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geni