[WikiEN-l] WP and Deep Web, was Re: Age fabrication and original research

[Ray Saintonge]

stevertigo wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:
>   
>> WP:SOHE being the page that you wrote recently:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sourcehelpers
>> Did you not think of trying to make Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource
>> Exchange more active, rather than starting a new page and a new
>> proposal?
>>     
> I thought about it. Different concept though, and with too many
> bottlenecks. "Near identical" may have been overstated. Newer ideas
> will have to avoid those same bottlenecks, and that's why I wrote up a
> draft for a new idea. In certain ways we have to be open and openly
> helpful about not just collaborative writing, but collaborative
> source-finding. To some that seems to mean swinging from the
> Britannica ideal toward the Google/PirateBay direction. I little bit
> perhaps, but not all the way.
>   

The philosophic roots of this view make sense, but how do we resolve the 
opposing tendencies of bottlenecks on one side and dispersion of ideas 
on the other?

> And the "encyclopedia" (WP:ENC) characterization is way overstated
> anyway. Wikipedia's philosophy is entirely different from Britannica's
> -- which doesn't even have articles about 'paid erection maintainers'
> and 'stand-by penis alternates.'  We on the other hand, do.
>
> -Stevertigo
> "Nothing we can't shake...
>   
I really don't care whether Wikipedia has articles about what we can't 
shake on the other hand. ;-)

Ec