[Foundation-l] Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

[Robin McCain]

This is an excellent idea - a kind of searchable sandbox where articles 
could eventually be promoted into the main site or simply used as in 
depth backing for a Wikipedia One article. It would need to have some 
high level sort mechanism to make it easier to access articles within a 
geopolitical area or niche focal point just to make it possible to 
disambiguate persons with the same name or the various flavors of 
engineering or architecture. Perhaps it could also serve as a beta test 
bed for Wikimedia software development.

But what to call it? Wikipedia2 doesn't have much flavor. 
WikipediaLocalized? WikiDetails? WikipediaExpanded? WikipediaSuppliment?

On 3/20/2012 5:24 PM, foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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> 	Britannica to stop printing books
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> For English, and other languages also:
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> What I suggest is a '''Wikipedia Two''  - an encyclopedia supplement
> where the standard of notability  is much relaxed, but which will be
> different from Wikia by still requiring  Verifiability and NPOV. It
> would include the lower levels of barely  notable articles in
> Wikipedia, and  a good deal of what we do not let in.
>
> It would for example include both high schools and elementary schools.
> It would include college athletes. It would include political
> candidates. It would include neighborhood businesses, and fire
> departments.  It would include individual asteroids.  It would include
> streets--and also villages. It would include ever ball game in a
> season.   It would include anyone who had a credited role in a film,
> or any named character in one--both the ones we currently leave out,
> and the ones we put in.
>
> This should satisfy both the inclusionists and the deletionists. The
> deletionists would have this material out of Wikipedia, the
> inclusionists would have it not rejected. Newcomers would have an open
> and accepting place for a initial experience.
>
> But it would be interesting to see the results of a search option:
> Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the really notable (WP)?
> Anyone care to guess which people would choose?
>