[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia hits the big time

Wed Mar 16 21:51:14 UTC 2005

My position is that you are operating in bad faith at this point if you are
not disclosing the name of the Foundation and the sort of things they have
done.

Depending on who it is and what we are likely to expect this could be very
good or very bad. How about a clue before you get us all worked up?

Fred

> From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:04:56 -0500
> To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia hits the big time
> 
> The latest issue of Software Development magazine is on-line now:
> 
> http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/sdm0504e/
> 
> Their excellent article "The Wiki Way" gives significant attention to
> MediaWiki software and the Wikipedia. There's even a section on Wiki
> Woes (like vandals).
> 
> And I found a professor of church history whose students cite Wikipedia
> in papers they write.
> 
> I think we're finally beginning to be taken seriously. We have half a
> million articles, and we're approaching the level of respectability
> which Encyclopedia Britannica labored for centuries to achieve.
> 
> The question is, where do we go from here? Larry Sanger left the project
> for a mix of reasons, but SOME of them made sense (at least to me). We
> never resolved the tension between:
> 
> A) Anyone can edit any article, any time; and,
> B) People can count on every article to be accurate and fair.
> 
> Not enough people were interested in Larry's "Sifter Project". I don't
> know if anyone is using Magnus Manke's "tagging" software. Do we need to
> fork?
> 
> I was approached by the director of a foundation (with a multi-million
> dollar budget) to create a fork of Wikipedia leading to a print edition
> to be published no later than 2008. If I do this, maybe it will get me
> out of your hair? (The Cunctator wrote, "Rinse, wash, repeat.") But I
> worry whether a fork is the best approach, or even necessary at all.
> 
> Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
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