[Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

Thu Sep 16 19:38:58 UTC 2010

Anyone who is interested in supporting a specialist work should give money to that work.  Wikipedia is a general work however.  There are those who would rather support a general work, which has one set of rules, navigation and procedures across the project, rather than fifteen specialized works which all function differently from each other.

It's apples and mushrooms, you can't compare them sensibly.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Damian <peter.damian at btinternet.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 12:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

> How would locking Wikipedia down fulfill the mission to collect all the 
 educational information known.
nformation changes constantly, new information becomes available 
onstantly, and new material gets added to old articles constantly.
 myself just added some new detail to an article within the past week.
That's just what I am disputing.  Take the article on England's greatest 
hilosopher
http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/william-of-ockham.html
It has actually shrunk since 2005.  It contains hardly anything of William's 
hought, and most of it is plagiarised from other sources anyway. And there 
s very little new information coming out about Ockham.  The Cambridge 
ompanion contains 16 pages about him.  Or take the SEP, which is online 
ttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/ and is the model of what an 
rticle should be.  Wikipedia should avoid being as technical as the SEP, 
ut there is a place for a well-written and accessible article about Ockham. 
hy isn't there one?
SEP is also accepting donations, why shouldn't I give money to that?

______________________________________________
oundation-l mailing list
oundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
nsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l