[Wikipedia-l] Can "outsiders" build their encyclopedia on Wikipedia?

Mon Apr 26 16:23:18 UTC 2004

"Magnus Manske" <magnus.manske at web.de> schrieb:

> IIRC, we have already limited additions to "encyclopedic contents", 
> which would separate between amateur volleyball players and religous 
> figures ;-)

It's certainly not a criticism at the specific example. I know too
little about it to make a judgement. It was more the general principle
that I was commenting on. Basically, we want much, we want more, but
we do not want everything.

Still, "encyclopedic content" is too vague to work on, and conflicts
will remain. My own principle is the "compound encyclopedia" idea -
take all encyclopedia-similar books, that is encyclopedias on a single
subject and such. What I'd like Wikipedia to be, is the 'merge' of
all those.

Andre Engels