Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by skribbj on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:39AM
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Forking Wikipedia articles based on partisanship is actually a super interesting idea.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by CharlesW on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:16AM
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Like Conservapedia?
https://www.conservapedia.com/
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by brighter2morrow on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:06PM
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Rationalwiki for those for whom Wikipedia isn't leftwing enough.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by mftrhu on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:52PM
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Conservapedia is trying to be a Wikipedia alternative - an Internet encyclopedia, from a fundamentalist point of view.
RationalWiki is not, and I'm not sure why you mentioned it. It's not a Wikipedia fork or alternative. It's not even trying to be one, it has completely different goals. The only thing they have in common is the fact that they are both wikis, but there's thousands of those around.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by brighter2morrow on Saturday July 06, 2019 @09:33AM
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Rationalwiki defers to Wikipedia on some things but writes articles on topics when they think the Wikipedia article doesn't go far enough in a direction they would like. Most rationalwiki articles would be redundant if their goal wasn't to overwrite Wikipedia
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by duskwuff on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:28PM
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> Embrace and aggregate partisan takes rather pursuing the noble but chimeric goal of neutrality.
The "noble but chimeric goal of neutrality" is core to Wikipedia's content policies [1]. Abandoning it would be an abdication of their mission.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet
by anon1m0us on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:02PM
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They say the winner writes the history. That must mean their is a loser's perspective too. Wikipedia could have both.
I remember watching a BBC documentary about the history of the American Revolution -- it was very different than what I was taught in the USA.
Read Ishmael as well. Similar take on, according to some, all of history.
I think that the solution is similar to what he's proposing for the social networks: decentralization. One example would be to take hint from github, and allow articles to be forked when they reach some threshold of editing warfare. Embrace and aggregate partisan takes rather pursuing the noble but chimeric goal of neutrality.