For some reasons, there exist some people who call every detergent "Tide" or every toothpaste "Colgate". There are some others who call all kinds of encyclopaedias "Wikipediahttp://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/07/25/medical-wikipedia-is-looking-for-a-few-good-doctors/" for some other reasons. It works for the best of the *brand*s in the first case but i am not sure if it is helpful for the second since people who use detergents and toothpastes are *not* necessarily well-informed. It is also not helpful because the online medical encyclopedia "Medipedia" has already started to look for a "few [well-informed] good doctors."
Tomorrow there would be stuff like "Cosmopedia" and "Militaropedia" looking for some few good experts. There exist but I am talking about Web 2.0/3.0 expert-generated content encyclopaedias. There's a risk for us losing ground. Well-informed people would stop calling every encyclopedia "Wikipedia". Also,Google brings much traffic to Wikipedia (supposedly because "Big Daddy" is based on incoming links' count) but things may change quickly and, assuming google algorithm would be kept unchanged, websites linking to Wikipedia articles can start linking to new expert 'pedias once content starts growing.
Fayssal F.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:27:33 +0100 "Fayssal F." szvest@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol product manager suggests it as a source To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 2a8c5680807250527k420533fdj5028b6bb3250397e@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
"Anonymous prestige or money and fame?"http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1178
medipedia.com seems like a potential serious project.
Fayssal F.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:54 +0100 Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol product manager suggests it as a source for Wikipedia To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4889B266.5020102@ntlworld.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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I don't doubt people will look up medical info there. As long as it's updated.
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Charles
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