[Wikipedia-l] Open-site.org

[Tom Parmenter]

Open-site.org has almost no content.  Let's let them go their way and
we go ours.  Let a thousand flowers bloom (or wither).  

Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88

|From: Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at epost.de>
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|Sender: wikipedia-l-admin at wikipedia.org
|Reply-To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
|Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:34:24 +0100
|
|Fred Bauder wrote:
|
|>>Why should I waste an afternoon researching an article, if someone at
|>>this other project might have done the same already?
|>>Why should someone at that project put time into writing articles from
|>>scratch, when we already have them?
|>>
|>>I do not think that competition is necessarily healthy.
|>>    
|>>
|>
|>Because they may be better.
|>
|>Because it is fun.
|>
|>It's my way or the highway that is not healthy, not competition.
|>
|>Variety is the spice of life.
|>  
|>
|Variety is good, but I don't see a point in just *writing* an article on 
|a topic if there's already an article somewhere else, available under 
|the same (?) conditions, that can be changed or expanded. Two varieties 
|of the same topic would also be bad for the user, because he'd have to 
|look up both. We'd be back to the "encyclopedia google", eventually ;-)
|
|Where variety would be useful is in the *presentation* and 
|*reliability*. That's why I suggested the merge of that new project with 
|the not-really-existing Sifter.
|
|Magnus
|
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