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>> 23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia. Yes, deletionists - this is really one flaw of Wikipedia. The other is, that entities are persecuted for editing ar
by greyman 18y ago
>> 23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia.
Yes, deletionists - this is really one flaw of Wikipedia. The other is, that entities are persecuted for editing articles about themselves.
What about just to copy the current articles on Wikipedia and specify another rules for editing?
- ig1 18y agoIn a large part the deletionist tract is due to information being unverifiable, non-notable stuff and self-edited stuff both often falls into that category. Verifyability I think has been a key factor in keeping wikipedia at a reasonable level of reliability. If you remove the verifyability requirement you could quickly spiral into a mess. So if you want to be inclusionist you'ld probably need to keep that requirement - but that would also probably kill a lot of your extra content. I think if it could have been done it would have been done now, all the mediawiki software is available, you can even get off-the-shelve hosting for a couple of hundred dollars. The fact that it hasn't been done successfully seems to indicate that there's no demand.