On 1/18/07, Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
As per the subject, excerpts from:
https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-January/000863.html
Larry Sanger writes,
"After seeing the widespread support for the suggestion that we try *not* forking Wikipedia--i.e., that we delete all articles that are not marked "CZ Live"--I am about to instruct our tech team to go ahead and make the deletion...This experiment represents a reconception of our project's basic aim. If the experiment goes well, no longer will we be calling ourselves a "fork of Wikipedia." We will have, exclusively, our own identity and our own articles. We will still, to be sure, follow much of the Wikipedia process--the aspects that work. But no longer will we have as our central aim the cleaning up and approval of Wikipedia articles. I think it might prove easier and more pleasant to build fresh new stables than to clean out the Augean Stables of Wikipedia."
On the CZ forums, he writes,
"One thing that I think I didn't realize sufficiently, when writing about this question a few months ago (at embarrassing length, before the pilot project was well under way), is that the very presence of fair-to-middling articles from WP is actually a strong disincentive for people to get to work. It's like this: when you get down to brass tacks, it's no fun to clean up the mediocre work of Wikipedians. It might be a hell of a lot more fun to start over from scratch." (http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,431.0.html)
-- Matt
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Well I am just so...he is...well...this just makes me so...hmph, pfft.