QUOTE(sbrown @ Sat 8th August 2009, 3:11pm)
QUOTE(emesee @ Sat 8th August 2009, 10:11pm)
Ive checked them out already.
Bless you!
QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Sat 8th August 2009, 3:03pm)
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Sat 8th August 2009, 9:27pm)
QUOTE(qwerty @ Sun 5th March 2006, 9:05pm)
This is the question I ask myself over and over again. Why does nobody try to decentralize the wiki world by competing against Wikimedia? Many people complain about Wikimedia's projects, but they do nothing to compete against it.
Actually, some do.
But for the most part they only attempt to compete against small portions of Wikimedia projects, typically those which affect them personally or which they simply feel are poorly done. You and I can take a few pages and publish them in a manner modified to suit our needs and tastes, but what would we do for the other 99.999%:
A. Leave them blank because they are Shit We Don't Care About, and not pretend to be a serious competitor.
B. Import them from a database dump because we suppose any problems we inherit can be fixed more expediently on our fledgling wiki than in the original.
C. Wait for them to be written as a revenge platform by other people who are banned from WP (and whose POVs seem as irrational to us as ours do to them).
D. Other, please explain.
That is why it seems to me that eventually ever Wiki-Communist Foundation Wiki have its own forked counterpart. That is including Wikia.
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sat 8th August 2009, 2:47pm)
QUOTE(Kato @ Sat 8th August 2009, 2:36pm)
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Sat 8th August 2009, 10:27pm)
QUOTE(qwerty @ Sun 5th March 2006, 9:05pm)
This is the question I ask myself over and over again. Why does nobody try to decentralize the wiki world by competing against Wikimedia? Many people complain about Wikimedia's projects, but they do nothing to compete against it.
Actually, some do.
This thread is
THREE AND A HALF YEARS OLD and needs to be closed.
Zombie police! BLARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
QUOTE(Guido den Broeder @ Sat 8th August 2009, 2:27pm)
QUOTE(qwerty @ Sun 5th March 2006, 9:05pm)
This is the question I ask myself over and over again. Why does nobody try to decentralize the wiki world by competing against Wikimedia? Many people complain about Wikimedia's projects, but they do nothing to compete against it.
Actually, some do.
More powerz to them.
QUOTE(Limey @ Sat 8th August 2009, 2:22pm)
QUOTE(Blu Aardvark @ Sun 5th March 2006, 10:13pm)
QUOTE(vulchy @ Sun 5th March 2006, 1:50pm)
It would need to be a site of much greater quality and comprehensiveness.
There is another alternative - a series of sites, all comprehensive on specific topics, and all interconnected via interwiki. This would actually be both cheaper, and in the long run, better, than a single site on general topics, which cannot be comprehensive by nature. In addition, it would solve many of the systematic problems present in the single-site model.
This is an intriguing idea, and I think you're absolutely right. Specialization would have many benefits, and it is certainly the norm of academia, etc. I think, though, that an even more interesting idea (if one were a businessman) would be to somehow link together specialized professional reference works into a single, high-quality encyclopedia (e.g., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grove Dictionary of Art, and hundreds of smaller and even more specialized works).
If someone could create such a work and find a way to put in online for free, it would destroy Wikipedia almost immediately. Of course, it just might not be economically viable and figuring out to gain the rights to hundreds of different works would be a very difficult task. I think, though, if say Oxford University Press were to make a serious attempt at doing something like this, the results would be excellent. (Sadly?), they seem to have other things to do with their time.
Yes, and immediate fix would be nice, but I guess we'll (or at least I) will have to be patient.
And to all trolls: go eat your trollishness with some vinaigrette and bacon bits.