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Re: Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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Post by teddyh »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #97
VectorLock wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like Wikipedia might have some inherent incompatibilities with what they're trying to do, such as its editorial rules and its definition of notability, which can't easily be "fixed" by whatever definition of fixing they need. I appreciate a more inclusive view of notability that lets you take it all in and surface whats relevant more selectively although that is open for insane amounts of debate around it as…

Wikipedia is a great resource, but it's also one of those success stories that owes as much to the incompetence of its competitors as it does to its own merit. I've often thought it would be interesting to create a "Wrapipedia" of sorts, basically a copy of the Wiki codebase that could be used to circumvent Wikipedia's often-nonsensical notability and deletion rules. Basically, instead of going to wikipedia.org to lo…

There is/was the Deletionpedia:

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

Re: Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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Post by judegomila »

timClicks wrote: post #108
judegomila wrote: post #98

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Jude from Golden here. Agreed that WP is one of the most amazing things ever built and interesting to see your various lenses on our mission. To the cynical self: see dropbox launch on HN back in the day. PS I’m no way claiming we are dropbox :> To the angry self: There are various constraints that we want to release ourselves from in working on this problem by starting fresh. We believe the constraint space is too h…

So, you're aiming for an exit as per Metaweb/Freebase?

JG here. No, just a damn good website for you all.

Re: Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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Post by CamperBob2 »

teddyh wrote: post #111
CamperBob2 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia is a great resource, but it's also one of those success stories that owes as much to the incompetence of its competitors as it does to its own merit. I've often thought it would be interesting to create a "Wrapipedia" of sorts, basically a copy of the Wiki codebase that could be used to circumvent Wikipedia's often-nonsensical notability and deletion rules. Basically, instead of going to wikipedia.org to lo…

There is/was the Deletionpedia: http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

True, but that sounds more reactionary and less constructive than what I had in mind. I'd envision it more as an alternative access URL for Wikipedia, one that acts as a supplementary source when necessary but otherwise is indistinguishable from using wikipedia.org directly.

Re: Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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Post by pcj-github »

Sorry, but I see nothing compelling here. If at this point your "customer stories" section includes quote from a VC, you don't have a real product. Good luck, but I'm afraid you are going to have a hard time finding real paying customers. And attracting actual human editors? Numerous people on this thread are already offended by your proposal. Next.
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