[Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

[geni]

On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs> wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
>> these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
>> easier to start, without having to start yet another wiki-based
>> general encyclopedia that directly competes with Wikipedia. Disruptive
>> innovation starts in niches, not in a position where it'll just end up
>> a bug on Wikipedia's windscreen.
>
> Some things I believe could be easily programmed:
>
> * Ability to surf through multiple wikis. For example, you could be
> reading article on a specialist wiki such as
> http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29 ; upon clicking the
> link Gilgamesh, you would be taken to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh ; when you further browse
> Wikipedia and click on Star Trek you would go not to Wikipedia's article
> but back to http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek .

Already in the inventory. In practice on wikipedia we normally assume
that when you click on an inline link in wikipedia you go to the
wikipedia article on that subject. For non wikipedia wikis to inline
link to wikipedia for more general background is pretty common though.

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geni