[Wikipedia-l] Do we really need a Sifter project?

[steve vertigo]

Mav typed: "But a stable distribution vetted by area
>experts (at the very  least by people with
>baccalaureate degrees in the subject area) /is/ a
>very important thing for us to have. "

I love this circular trend -- communism degrades into
totalitarianism and abuse of power --  Then comes
capitalist revolution and a little later, bourgeois
attitude and abuse of wealth, then until socialist
revolution takes over again.

Consider this trend here -- Nupedia was elitist and
produced nada.  The Wikipedia was a revolution that
became the flagship wiki on the web. Democratize
everything! Limit no user! Spam? Vandalism? Well
handle it!   Then came complaints and calls for
push-button corrections -- overstressed people quit. (
F($&) p(#*(# -- as George Carlin would say)

Then comes again the old idea of making a New Nupedia
again -- control everything! -- show us your
credentials!  Lets sell textbooks! What a load!-*

-S-


We can use Erik's idea for adding neat features to the
Brilliant prose page as 
a start. Then that page can act as a queue for
articles that Nupedia can take-up and then put through
a simplified Nupedia polishing process by area 
experts. The Sifter software can be used to make this
easy but it is not really needed. 

But a stable distribution vetted by area experts (at
the very least by people with baccalaureate degrees in
the subject area) /is/ a very important thing for us
to have. 



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