[Wikipedia-l] Fork within a language

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 06:12 PM 3/19/02 +0200, you wrote:
>On Monday 18 March 2002 23:57, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to understand where the boundaries for Wikipedia are.
> > Forgive me if this gets philosophical, and not very practical.
> >
> > Could a Wiki devoted to history have a place outside of Wikipedia?
> > When describing London, it would focus on the city's historic
> > features, not on the facets of today's London.  Then again,
> > Wikipedia's entries on many things are focused on history.  It is
> > almost as if Wikipedia is that history Wiki.  History, after all, is
> > so much more in line with the contents of an encyclopedia than is
> > object-oriented software development.
>
>Assuming FDL for all instances, perhaps cut'n'pasting from a history wiki
>into wikipedia might be easier than the other way round.
>
> > Could a leftist-point-of-view Wiki exist side by side with Wikipedia?
>
>Only on the sinister side ... <g>
><<OK, how many of you figured that one out?>>
>
> > It would carefully point out any misuse of power
>
>You mean as in [[Stalin]], [[Pol Pot]], [[Mao]] . . . ?

As in Emma Goldman pointing out the flaws of socialist Russia around 1920.
Or were you thinking of the way the U.S. allied with [[Stalin]]? (This stuff
really isn't one-sided, and I'm getting tired of reading left-bashing on a
completely unrelated thread.)


> >, and list activist
> > and political groups.
>
>Expect lots and lots of vandalism.

A valid and important point. On the other hand, the wiki model
can be used in less open-to-everyone modes than the wikipedia.



> > A youth culture Wiki might list all the hot dance clubs in London, but
>
>Feasible, but youth "culture" changes so quickly that you might as well
>start from scratch every two years or so.

What you'd do, I think, is change as it went: add new clubs, edit/update
descriptions, remove those that had closed (or tag them as "closed, here
are some historic notes").
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
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