[WikiEN-l] One Where We Blew It

Tue Sep 6 22:11:23 UTC 2005

On 06/09/05, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Also, I do wish we could do David's #1. I think the real question is
> > how much of the original wikiway does wikipedia want to follow....
> 
> This is a question to which I don't know the answer.  If we can get an
> answer (and I doubt we will), then it would determine the whole future
> of Wikipedia.
> 
> The question is fundementally "what is more important, wiki-, or -pedia?"

The one is a means to a the other. The goal of the project is to
provide a free encyclopedia; a wiki is the way chosen with which to do
it. And the process should not trump the project...

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk