| | The main problem I can see with Wikipedia is NPOV - it wants to adopt a 'neutral' point of view, but it seems doubtful a truly neutral point of view exists. I think a better option is a federation of multiple POV encyclopedias, each with a different POV. So you can have the conservative encyclopedia, the liberal encyclopedia, the communist encyclopedia, the atheist encyclopedia, the nazi encyclopedia, the Jewish encyclopedia, the Catholic encyclopedia, the creationist encyclopedia, the evolutionist encyclopedia, etc., and so on we go. Each person can go to the POV they want (or they want right now). POV encyclopedias can trade articles - you can take an article from one POV and edit it to suit another. I think MediaWiki already has some support for such article trading (Special:Import, Special:Export, etc.), but it could add more features in this area - e.g. autoimport new revisions from another encyclopedia (e.g. Wikipedia), but put them in some special separate namespace, with comparison tools between the two. So if I am writing my encyclopedia with a particular POV, I can keep track of what the other POV encyclopedias are saying, and copy what seems relevant to my POV across. And then, when they make new changes, I can keep on reviewing those, and see if I want to copy that too. So, in that view, no particular wiki-based encyclopedia is the future, but rather a federation of differing POV encyclopedias, co-operating when useful and competing when useful - neither co-operation nor competition, but co-opetition. --[[User:Maratrean|Maratrean]] 20:26, 26 March 2011 (EDT) | | The main problem I can see with Wikipedia is NPOV - it wants to adopt a 'neutral' point of view, but it seems doubtful a truly neutral point of view exists. I think a better option is a federation of multiple POV encyclopedias, each with a different POV. So you can have the conservative encyclopedia, the liberal encyclopedia, the communist encyclopedia, the atheist encyclopedia, the nazi encyclopedia, the Jewish encyclopedia, the Catholic encyclopedia, the creationist encyclopedia, the evolutionist encyclopedia, etc., and so on we go. Each person can go to the POV they want (or they want right now). POV encyclopedias can trade articles - you can take an article from one POV and edit it to suit another. I think MediaWiki already has some support for such article trading (Special:Import, Special:Export, etc.), but it could add more features in this area - e.g. autoimport new revisions from another encyclopedia (e.g. Wikipedia), but put them in some special separate namespace, with comparison tools between the two. So if I am writing my encyclopedia with a particular POV, I can keep track of what the other POV encyclopedias are saying, and copy what seems relevant to my POV across. And then, when they make new changes, I can keep on reviewing those, and see if I want to copy that too. So, in that view, no particular wiki-based encyclopedia is the future, but rather a federation of differing POV encyclopedias, co-operating when useful and competing when useful - neither co-operation nor competition, but co-opetition. --[[User:Maratrean|Maratrean]] 20:26, 26 March 2011 (EDT) |