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(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On 16 Sep 2006 at 20:32, "Mathias
Schindler"
<mathias.schindler(a)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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