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Thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it. When I first started the project I was trying to find my way and, even though I didn't make the site to compete w
by sparkzilla 10y ago
Thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it. When I first started the project I was trying to find my way and, even though I didn't make the site to compete with Wikipedia, I found myself comparing the site to Wikipedia due to the similarities in output, and the differences in the way the site was constructed. I found it quite fascinating that two different software systems could create similar results. But after a while I found the comparisons restrictive. One one hand, as you say, the Newslines format doesn't deal with the kind of articles you mention. I think those kind of articles have traditionally worked fairly well on Wikipedia, but many other kinds of articles, especially news-based (although there are others e.g. medical articles) don't fit very well. Many Wikipedians don't understand that boundary. On the other hand, the format I am working on can do much more than Wikipedia, so I've generally left those comparisons behind now, and am looking forward to the next benchmark.
- chris_wot 10y agoIf I may make a suggestion: if Wikipedia people are criticising you, I'd ignore them. In fact, I'd say that you are a completely different mechanism that is trying to achieve similar things to Wikipedia. Wikipedia pretty much nullified the Encyclopedia Britannica's claim that they were competing with them and trying to put them out of business by merely stating that they weren't in competition and that they would use them for sourcing information. I'd run the same technique - there's no real need to compete and the market is big enough for both you and Wikipedia.
- sparkzilla 10y agoI agree. No point in fighting yesterday's battles.