On 27 June 2010 20:32, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > It's never too late to do better. The experiment is Wikipedia doing it.
I remain entirely unconvinced. POV forks reduces strife amongst the *writers*, but doesn't do much for the *readers*. Many people have tried competing with Wikipedia with a site that makes things nicer for the writers. So far the track record is dismal and the sites are all but moribund. Even the writers prefer to go where the readers are, which is here. It is understandable that experimenters want to go where the readers are too, but considering the problems for writers turned out to be way less important in practice than actually being read ... you'd need to come up with rules that really did succeed in skimming off Wikipedia's actual *contributors* to demonstrate it was at all a good idea. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
