[WikiEN-l] I believe I called this some time ago...

Philip Sandifer snowspinner at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 19:52:20 UTC 2007


On Nov 9, 2007, at 2:48 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 09/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> This should never have got this far, though.  When did Comixpedia go
>> online?  Wikipedia could never be the global directory of all
>> webcomics, that is something we are not and Comixpedia apparently
>> is; we should have been better at communicating that.
>
>
> That Howard Tayler mounted his campaign apparently unaware of the
> existence of Comixpedia doesn't speak well to Comixpedia's mindshare
> in its supposed primary audience, the webcomics subculture.

I suspect that he is aware of Comixpedia. (Though I have no personal  
contact with him, and don't honestly know. But I'd be surprised if  
he's not aware.) But remember also that Comixpedia was designed as the  
angry fork from Wikipedia - the second choice alternative.

-Phil



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