[Wikipedia-l] Open-site.org

[The Cunctator]

On 1/9/03 1:34 PM, "Magnus Manske" <magnus.manske at epost.de> wrote:

> 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.

So do you agree that we shouldn't be duplicating the effort of
planetmath.org?