A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life.
Here's how that site works:
*Experts write articles (similar to the original Nupedia, only they
dint' give up after nine articles)
*Articles that are lacking are temporarily imported from Wikipedia
*Wikipedia articles which are reviewed and approved by experts become
permanent content
*Taxonomic data is imported from various databases, including WORMS,
ITIS, and various other trusted names.
*The public (supposedly) may contribute information (though I've not
figured out how yet)
*The public may contribute tagged freely licensed photos to the wiki by
uploading them to the EOL's Flickr photostream where a bot adds them
regularly.
On the surface, EOL looks like it's doing quite well and has a lot of
useful information and photos, and I even use it sometimes for research
when Wikipedia doesn't satisfy my hunger :-[ . But if you ask me,
they've made it too difficult to learn to contribute, barring out
potential editors like myself.
God bless,
Bob
On 4/8/2011 4:58 PM, MuZemike wrote:
That wouldn't solve anything, except further draw
a hard line and create
an even larger rift between editors. If we strive to be an "open
community" where we bring people together, then we would collectively be
making it more closed by doing this.
-MuZemike
On 4/8/2011 1:26 PM, David Goodman wrote:
I've also suggested this, calling it
'''Wikipedia Two'' - an
encyclopedia supplement where the standard of notability is much
relaxed, but which will be different from Wikia by still requiring
WP:Verifiability, and NPOV. It would include the lower levels of
barely notable articles in Wikipedia, and the upper levels of a good
deal of what we do not let in. It would for example include both high
schools and elementary schools. It would include college athletes. It
would include political candidates. It would include neighborhood
businesses, and fire departments. It would include individual
asteroids. It would include anyone who had a credited role in a film,
or any named character in one--both the ones we currently leave out,
and the ones we put in. This should satisfy both the inclusionists
and the deletionists. The deletionists will have this material out of
Wikipedia, the inclusionists will have it not rejected.
But it would be interesting to see a search option:
Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the notable(W)?
Anyone care to guess which people would choose?
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