Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. What? This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at this stage for someone to be a better Wikipedia than Wikipedia. So

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:35, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: (Any cases I've missed there?) The madmen. Or is that overlaying both? :) g ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Riddell
On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. Marc Riddell ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread MZMcBride
Marc Riddell wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. MZMcBride ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Marc Riddell wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal.  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of chapters? I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is good. That

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread geni
On 20 December 2010 09:35, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. What? This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Fred Bauder
On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal.  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of chapters? I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is good.

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 22:46, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The network effects are massive. Simply wanting doing something better doesn't work. What does work is Wikia wikis such as Lostpedia that will draw a small crowd. Yeah. The small, specialist approach is clearly something

[Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Fred User:Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread MZMcBride
Fred Bauder wrote: http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop in the sea of Wikipedia clones. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 01:24, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Fred Bauder wrote: http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop in the sea of Wikipedia clones. Not vastly, except that it's actually a fork from Citizendium rather

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
Fred Bauder wrote: http://knowino.org/wiki/Welcome! Anything particularly notable about this site? It looks like another drop in the sea of Wikipedia clones. MZMcBride That one is an actual wiki. We talked about it. I'm just updating. Network effects should take care of it. There can be

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-19 Thread Noein
On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. Fred User:Fred Bauder What? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: