[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

Thu Nov 30 18:51:19 UTC 2006

On 11/30/06, Tony Jacobs <gtjacobs at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From: "The Cunctator" <cunctator at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> >To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!
> >Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:32:21 -0500
> >
> >I for one think it's pathetic that Wikipedia is giving up on the mission
> of
> >being a complete encyclopedia because there exist specialty sites on
> >particular areas of knowledge.
>
> I disagree. Wikipedia can't be all things to all people, and I think it's
> silly to try.  Wikipedia should consider itself one of a community of
> wikis,
> specifically, the encyclopedic one, with academic standards.  Why not
> allow
> for there to be multiple sources of information, and let the different
> ones
> specialize in different things and get good at what they do?

Why can't Wikipedia be all things to all people?

I have nothing against specialists, but I also see no reason that they
shouldn't be subsumed in the gaping maw of Wikipedia.

One of the great things about the move to electronic media is that you
finally have the opportunity to erase the artificial divide between general
scope and specific detail that is necessary in the print world.