[Foundation-l] Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

[Richard Symonds]

Why do we need a seperate Wikipedia project for this? Surely userspace 
drafts are acceptable, they just need 'mainstreaming'...

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On 21/03/2012 16:40, Robin McCain wrote:
> This is an excellent idea - a kind of searchable sandbox where 
> articles could eventually be promoted into the main site or simply 
> used as in depth backing for a Wikipedia One article. It would need to 
> have some high level sort mechanism to make it easier to access 
> articles within a geopolitical area or niche focal point just to make 
> it possible to disambiguate persons with the same name or the various 
> flavors of engineering or architecture. Perhaps it could also serve as 
> a beta test bed for Wikimedia software development.
>
> But what to call it? Wikipedia2 doesn't have much flavor. 
> WikipediaLocalized? WikiDetails? WikipediaExpanded? WikipediaSuppliment?
>
> On 3/20/2012 5:24 PM, foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>> From: David Goodman<dggenwp at gmail.com>
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Cc:rm at slmr.com
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:,
>>     Britannica to stop printing books
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>>
>> For English, and other languages also:
>>
>> What I suggest is a '''Wikipedia Two''  - an encyclopedia supplement
>> where the standard of notability  is much relaxed, but which will be
>> different from Wikia by still requiring  Verifiability and NPOV. It
>> would include the lower levels of barely  notable articles in
>> Wikipedia, and  a good deal of what we do not let in.
>>
>> It would for example include both high schools and elementary schools.
>> It would include college athletes. It would include political
>> candidates. It would include neighborhood businesses, and fire
>> departments.  It would include individual asteroids.  It would include
>> streets--and also villages. It would include ever ball game in a
>> season.   It would include anyone who had a credited role in a film,
>> or any named character in one--both the ones we currently leave out,
>> and the ones we put in.
>>
>> This should satisfy both the inclusionists and the deletionists. The
>> deletionists would have this material out of Wikipedia, the
>> inclusionists would have it not rejected. Newcomers would have an open
>> and accepting place for a initial experience.
>>
>> But it would be interesting to see the results of a search option:
>> Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the really notable (WP)?
>> Anyone care to guess which people would choose?
>>
>
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