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

[George Herbert]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:16 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

We still have wide gaps in knowledge coverage.  Not in the most common
areas, but in many specialized areas, where they're not heavily
geek-populated.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com