[Wikipedia-l] Potential forking of Wikipedia

[Stephen Gilbert]

If that's the proposal, I'm all for it. I've had
similiar thought myself.

Stephen G.

--- Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at epost.de> wrote:
> Let me try to summarize:
> 1. Articles are written by experts, or are copied
> from "free 
> encyclopedia sources"
> 2. They get checked and maybe expanded by experts
> 3. They are stored in a "safe" place where every
> change, if any, is 
> controlled
> 4. These modified articles are a "free encyclopedia
> source" again
> 5. As a result, these articles (or parts of them)
> can be integrated into 
> the "free encyclopedia sources" from #1
> 
> So, Wikipedia could be the basis for Nupedia (which
> is no problem in 
> itself; I could open up "Magnuspedia" today, based
> on Wikipedia, and 
> declare it expert-edits only, and noone could stop
> me). But, whatever 
> the experts at Nupedia will come up with, it will
> probably be better 
> than the corresponding Wikipedia article it is based
> on. Wikipedia can 
> only profit from such edits, as they can be used in
> turn.
> There's one thing Wikipedia will always beat Nupedia
> in: Growth. At the 
> moment, that is growth in the number of articles.
> Bu, at some point, it 
> will be growth of individual articles. Many articles
> I originally 
> submitted to Nupedia have been growing enormously on
> the fertile soil of 
> Wikipedia. Articles can grow on Wikipedia, be
> proof-read in Nupedia, and 
> gan then grow further on Wikipedia again.
> What I'm trying to say is Wikipedia and Nupedia
> won't be a fork, because 
> they're not really competition; they could both
> benefit from a symbiosis.
> 
> Magnus


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