[WikiEN-l] Nupedia? (was: Brilliant prose rename brainstorm)

Fri Dec 12 20:31:47 UTC 2003

Erik wrote:
>....
>But before we move further into that direction I'd 
>like to streamline the BP process, improve 
>organization and build a culture of certification.  
>Picking a proper name for the BP page is an 
>important part of that.
>....

Why not call it [[Wikipedia:Candidates for inclusion
in Nupedia]]? We might as well do something with the
excellent Nupedia name. IMO making Nupedia into a
stable distribution of Wikipedia content would be a
great idea (this would be similar to how the Linux and
GNU tools are made into stable distributions; Nupedia,
of course, would be more like Debian than RedHat). 

Nupedia could then also be tasted with creating a
paper version of our content in addition to having the
full web-hosted versions of articles. Since space on
paper is not cheap, many articles would have to boiled
down to their basics for a paper version. A separate
project would be better suited to do that so that
Wikipedians could concentrate on what we have and
continue to do best - add more content to Wikipedia
and fix errors. This would also generate a great deal
of interest among Wikipedians to make their articles
shine enough for Nupedia-inclusion. 

Of course all proper credit (and then some in the form
of diffs comparing the Nupedia version with the
current Wikipedia version) will be given to Wikipedia
(Wikipedia's name should even be the subtitle of the
revived Nupedia project). 

-- mav

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