I am very much reminded of a folklore tale from my native Finland. It is one of a series in a rich tradition of stories about a village of idiots. Not village idiots, but a village of idiots. The name of the village is "Hölmölä" meaning literally "Dufus[locative]". The series of vignettes concerns the life experiences of this village, the canonical tale being of a man who built a house, and forgot to make windows into it. His solution was to periodically come out of his house with a sack, open it, to let daylight in, close the sack, and quickly run back into his house.
Now maybe I am missing something...
Assuming that good content (if any) in sangers project will be added to wikipedia, why would potential editors prefer to edit these articles that are copied back to wikipedia too on sangers project, rather than on wikipedia? There has to be some added value to editing on sangers project, rather than on wikipedia, for his project to flourish. What is it? I genuinely want to know.
On 9/16/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 16 Sep 2006 at 20:32, "Mathias Schindler" mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
What bothers me most is that Larry's fifth proposal for an encyclopedia comes when plan 3 and 4 ("Encyclopedia of Earth" and the "Digital Universe Encyclopedia") have not surfaced yet. Larry might or might not use the argument that he does not bear responsibility in having the EoE miss about three announced dates to be released. During the talk, he did not mention those projects a single time (only after I specifically asked him about this).
That guy does seem to be creating a lot of "vaporware". He seems to be of the school of thought that holds that the way to launch a project is to first get a lot of "buzz" going about how innovative it's going to be, and afterward start thinking about actually launching it someday. In contrast, Wikipedia got started by actually getting started... the hype and chitchat came later.
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