I didn't make any specific proposal other than that we (or someone associated with Wikipedia and Nupedia) get back into the business of making the process of creating an free encyclopedia palatable to "the experts." The exact form of the proposal is best left to the concerned parties, I guess. The one Magnus makes is rather old (as I'm sure he knows) and I vaguely recall making it myself once or twice on Nupedia-L.
I do think we could go farther, though. I think we need to be creative thinking up ways we can attract, say, a major university to become involved in managing Nupedia (or perhaps some new organization). But, again, I don't want to make any *specific* proposals, just because I'd rather leave that up to concerned parties.
Who's that? Jimbo, those of you on Wikipedia who are interested in breathing life into Wikipedia, and those on Nupedia who still care.
Larry
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
If that's the proposal, I'm all for it. I've had similiar thought myself.
Stephen G.
--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@epost.de wrote:
Let me try to summarize:
- 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
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