[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

Thu Feb 19 17:16:49 UTC 2009

David Goodman wrote:

> The benefit is in getting users who would not be comfortable on
> Wikipedia because of the perceived and real behavior problems on that
> site--even if this is no worse ultimately than in the academic world,
> the mode of interaction is certainly very different.

In other words, users of the other websiite would modify Wikipedia's
content without interacting with the Wikipedia-side users editing the
same articles.  They would be isolated from concerns raised on talk
pages and unable to discuss disagreements with Wikipedians.  In the
case of a reversion or other contrary revision on Wikiepdia's end,
they would be left to guess the rationale and either allow the changes
to stand or revert them without knowledge of the reasons behind them
or pertinent discussion/consensus among Wikipedians.  Edit wars would
arise between two sets of users lacking insight into each other's
ideas and the ability to cross-communicate.

Please correct me if I've misunderstood something.