I think this initiative point to a weakness in our approach, that is
worth discussing, independent if just this will be anything or not.
In our version we have somewhat lower quality demand then enwp, and we
can also be more pragmatic and handle cases individually, but still one
of our most recurrent discussion is on how we handle articles that is
too weak/bad/irrelevant to be allowed into our articlespace but still
not are rubbish. We have looked into 1)enwp alteranative with a draft
space, 2) to have special signals to engage editor willing to work on
these, 3) to give it back to the user who put it into Wikipedia with
text explaining what is the problem, 4) different type of templates,
5)and have special pages where these can be discussed.
Some of these (and pragmatism and good mentors) help a little bit, but
does not solve the basic issue, that users create articles (not being
rubbish) that is not allowed into our article space, which makes them
very disappointed (angry)
Anders
Den 2016-10-11 kl. 11:58, skrev Peter Southwood:
Competition is healthy, it can be useful to test
alternatives and separate out the ones that work from the ones that don’t. However I think
Starlords may be one that doesn’t work and may bring down the project prematurely. I will
watch in case they develop anything actually useful - who knows...
Cheers,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Craig
Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:48 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic
So what you're saying is, Vox Day has created a "safe space" where his
circle of friends can reinforce each other's biases without interference from the
outside world? Great.
Also, "Starlords". Good grief.
Cheers,
Craig
On 11 October 2016 at 04:13, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia
without bias or thought police"
Home page:
http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page
Announcement:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-big-fork-
infogalactic.html
Roadmap:
http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Roadmap
- d.
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