[WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

[David Gerard]

On 27 June 2010 20:32, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> It's never too late to do better. The experiment is Wikipedia doing it.


I remain entirely unconvinced. POV forks reduces strife amongst the
*writers*, but doesn't do much for the *readers*.

Many people have tried competing with Wikipedia with a site that makes
things nicer for the writers. So far the track record is dismal and
the sites are all but moribund. Even the writers prefer to go where
the readers are, which is here.

It is understandable that experimenters want to go where the readers
are too, but considering the problems for writers turned out to be way
less important in practice than actually being read ... you'd need to
come up with rules that really did succeed in skimming off Wikipedia's
actual *contributors* to demonstrate it was at all a good idea.


- d.