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

[Casey Brown]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's like the perennial proposal for multiple article versions on
> Wikipedia for each point of view. This solves a problem for the
> *writers*, but makes one for the *readers*. They seem to want one
> source with one article on a topic, else they'd just hit the top ten
> links in Google instead of going to Wikipedia. (Wikinfo has tried
> implementing this. Its readership is negligible compared to Wikipedia,
> but its writers enjoy it.)
>
> Why do people want ten Wikipedias to look up instead of one? They
> observably don't - they want a source they can quickly look up
> something in that they can reasonably trust to be useful. They only go
> to multiple sources if that one starts sucking.

As a reader, this is exactly my subconscious opinion. I'm glad you
nailed our subconscious thoughts. ;-)

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023