[Foundation-l] Project Proposal: Wikicat

Sat Jul 29 22:12:48 UTC 2006

Ray Saintonge wrote:

> ISBNs have their limitations too.  My copy of the 1977, 22nd 
> edition of "Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary" has two 
> different ISBNs depending on whether there are index tabs on the 
> fore-edge.  My earlier 1922, 11th edition, "The American 
> Illustrated Medical Dictionary", (edited by Dorland) does not 
> have an ISBN.

These comments, while accurate, are on the absolute layman level. 

Even though I think Wikicat is one of most promising project 
proposals in the last few years, I fear it will have a hard time 
to explain, over and over again, the basics of bibliography to all 
newcomers who think they are experts.  How can this project sort 
out the beginners and give them easy but meaningful tasks where 
they can be productive, without their ignorance causing damage? 

Could we perhaps have a separate mailing list (wikicat-l) for 
discussions about Wikicat, even before the project is formally 
established? That would be an opportunity to establish some level 
of common knowledge and "get to know" each other.

-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se