[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia Empire Based on Open Source Worst Practices?"

[David Gerard]

On 12/08/06, Gareth Hughes ([[User:Garzo]]) <garzohugo+wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a few good points in the blog (let's not call it an essay!).
> I particularly like the description of Wikipedia as a 'semi-anarchic
> feudal state'. Perhaps we should put that on a banner somewhere — your
> fiefdom or mine? The comparison of Wikipedia with Linux distributions
> is a bit misplaced. The main objection to this approach is that,
> simply put, they are very different beasties. One has to do with facts
> and information, the other has to do with software programmes. How
> would we modularise the article on [[cactus]]? Extracting anything
> more useful from this is dasht difficult.


Some categories would make useful modules. In print form we've been
calling these "wikireaders."


- d.