Re: [Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

2012-03-07 Thread teun spaans
* They have to do lots of original research; it is impossible to follow development of the railway infrastructure and operations using only high quality published sources; * They got bitten a bit by the "notability" discussions in their field; they want to document every track, every junction

Re: [Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

2012-03-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:10:17 +, geni wrote: > On 7 March 2012 07:23, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> I'm taking a hint from Clay Shirky's books here: What most people >> would consider high quality published sources - in this case, by >> railway companies, governments, standards institutions or en

Re: [Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

2012-03-07 Thread geni
On 7 March 2012 07:23, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I'm taking a hint from Clay Shirky's books here: What most people > would consider high quality published sources - in this case, by > railway companies, governments, standards institutions or engineering > colleges - simply don't have the capacity t

Re: [Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

2012-03-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/7 Marcin Cieslak > I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic > event in Polish railway history[1] and I found out that volunteers > who traditionally dealt with railway matters on Polish Wikipedia > have virtually disappeared. Thought provoking, thanks a lot for

[Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

2012-03-06 Thread Marcin Cieslak
[ Please excuse me if the subject has already been beaten to death here; I am not a regular visitor to this mailing list I tried to search for this stuff here & on strategywiki, but feel free to point me to the archives! ] I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic