[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[Marc Riddell]

on 6/29/07 6:04 PM, Eugene van der Pijll at eugene at vanderpijll.nl wrote:

> The Cunctator schreef:
>> See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia for a good early history
>> of Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's role.
> 
> The impression I got from that article is that Larry Sanger left,
> because he felt he wasn't supported in his fight to keep Wikipedia
> running; because there were not enough rules to ban vandals and other
> troublesome editors.
> 
> It may be relevant for our discussion about the "structure" of Wikipedia
> to see Larry's ideas for a workable environment to write an
> encyclopedia:
> https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-June/000994.html,
> "Towards CZ 2.0".
> 
> Marc (Riddell), does that mail from Larry describe more or less what you
> mean by the "structure" that is necessary for Wikipedia? If so, you now
> have a nice /in vivo/ experiment.
> 
> Eugene
> 
When I tried to open the link you provided, I got a "Link Not Found"
message.

Marc