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Wouldn't a sub-wiki on Wikipedia for topics with unknown answers serve the purpose better? Interesting concept though.
by vivegi 4y ago
Wouldn't a sub-wiki on Wikipedia for topics with unknown answers serve the purpose better?
Interesting concept though.
- mhh__ 4y agoWikipedia already has articles covering unsolved problems for at least physics and presumably other fields too
- vivegi 4y agoYes. I was thinking in the lines of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems or Hilbert's problems. There is indeed a Lists of unsolved problems page in Wikipedia itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems). That is why the Wikenigma site in the original post sounded a bit redundant, though nothing wrong with a wiki focused on just that.
- jabroni_salad 4y agoIf the site does a lot of curation and 'good writing' then I would say no, since wikipedia is a little austere. For example, if I want to read about oddball geographic places then Atlas Obscura is a much more interesting place to read.