[Wikipedia-l] Proposed fork of Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

On 14/07/2008, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Maury Markowitz
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> <maury_markowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >> professional musicians. To be a skilled and successful > contributor to Wikipedia today requires significant training and > practice.
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>  > Oh yes, but I believe this can be greatly improved though technology.
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>  > For instance, I think that the entire REF and CITE tagging system is
>  > absolutely terrible, one of the worst bits of technology I have ever seen.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFIXIT

That's a little unfair - programming MediaWiki extensions isn't like
learning wikitext, it requires a decent amount of programming
experience.