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My longstanding beef with deletionism is that it goes against the Wiki Way. If Ward's wiki had operated in the same way, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as
by evangineer 15y ago
My longstanding beef with deletionism is that it goes against the Wiki Way.
If Ward's wiki had operated in the same way, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as influential and useful.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoBut Ward's wiki is topic-focused, which is itself a good layer of defense. It's full of important (to us) but abstruse subjects like Liskov-substitutability, which simply aren't going to hold the interest of the people who want to maintain exhaustive lists of Pokémon characters.
- evangineer 15y agoHmm, that would suggest a decentralized network of domain-specific wikis would be a more robust model than Wikipedia's centralized one. Back in the day, Lion Kimbro was heavily advocating for something like that using the notion of WikiNodes to interconnect the wikis: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/action=browse&id=WikiNode&oldid=WikiNodes http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/action=browse&id=WikiNode&#...