[Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 17:38:12 UTC 2009


Hoi,
If articles can be shared, surely talk pages can be shared too ?
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/2/19 David Levy <lifeisunfair at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
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