[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?

[Phroziac]

Unwikipedia sounds too much like Uncyclopedia. ;/

On 8/5/05, steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Seems like a cool idea. But given any "Wikipedia 1.0"
> agenda, and putting aside for a moment the aspects of
> being entirely unwiki and oxymoronical, there are a
> few general ways that this could take shape AISI:
> 
> * Unwikipedia academic fork: Separate parallel wiki
> with Google ads and paid academics working on
> polishing wikipedia articles. Code would allow for
> easy viewing and merging of Wikipedia and Unwikipedia
> articles
> 
> * Ghost of Nupedia (aka. Nupedia's Monster): On-wiki
> institution of Nupedia-style credentialism. Ranking of
> academic degrees by type: conservative American Ivy
> League institutions first, everyone else second, all
> the way down to mail-order degrees from North Korea.
> 
> * Perma-Protectionism: Sysops are pruned by
> credentialsm (or less so trust), and allowed to
> protect and lock pages at will, banning anyone who
> even hints at a crackpot theory, poor spelling, or
> youthful ignorance.
> 
> * Paranoid Web of Trust: People get ranks (in addition
> to barnstars) and parade them proudly. Everyone sucks
> up to the Board members, and they eventually get
> military-style badges made to pin on their (c)&™
> Wikimedia Nohat-logo sweatshirts.
> 
> * PATRIOT ACT : Uniting and Strengthening Wikipedia by
> Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
> Obstruct Trollism Act of 2005
> 
> -SV
> 
> 
> 
> --- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Zachary Harden wrote:
> >
> > > And how can we mark it as even nice? A template
> > could disrupt the
> > > page, but IMHO, any type of mark on the article
> > page is just asking
> > > for trouble. Plus, I still do not know how can one
> > define a "done"
> > > article on here and how many will be protected on
> > a trial basis.
> >
> > Something based on the version rating system that
> > almost got enabled in
> > the most recent version of WikiMedia would be best,
> > IMO - it's my
> > understanding that the basic code is all there, it
> > just needs tweaking
> > and polishing. Trying to kludge something together
> > with the existing
> > functions probably wouldn't work well since there's
> > no way to attach
> > arbitrary metadata to specific versions of a page.
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