2008/1/17, Philip Hunt <cabalamat(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I've been reading about your idea of an "Extrapedia" containing
articles that Wikipedia doesn't think are notable enough.
I've recently been thinking on similar lines, and have decided to
create an inclusionist fork of Wikipedia. You are welcome to use my
wiki (when it's up) as your Extrapedia, if you want.
I notice you say "Now I wonder in general: why do there need to be
multiple Wikias? Why can't all articles from all Wikias be one wiki?"
Why not indeed? I'm planning a feature I call "micro-wikis" that
allows anyone to create a sub-wiki of the main wiki.
How would a micro-wiki work? What would it provide? Why not just use
the category system instead? :-) You could modify MediaWiki to allow
searches, recent-changes-views, etc. to show content related to the
category of your choice only. If the user interface for this category filter
system were designed well, maybe it would be a better way to get
what you want?
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