QUOTE(NotARepublican55 @ Thu 18th March 2010, 12:52am)
Has anyone thought of doing a complete import of Wikipedia's content to another Wiki site and starting with a clean batch of editors?
That was the initial plan for Citizendium. Think about it. Try to imagine a group of reasonably
adult editors looking at a Big Dump of stuff from Wikipedia. A few weeks of trying to stomach that was enough to send them running away screaming and deciding to start from scratch.
QUOTE(John Limey @ Wed 17th March 2010, 9:29pm)
If the content on Wikipedia is good enough to justify forking to another site, then what's the problem? Either Wikipedia produces good content in which case it is a success and the dysfunction of the community is just a pointless sidenote or Wikipedia doesn't produce good content in which case there's no point in starting with bad content and new editors — they'd be better off just writing from scratch. The theory that Wikipedia has good content but bad editors is entirely incoherent.
What you say here represents the single biggest misconception about the nature of knowledge that the popular imagination has ever misconceived. Generations of educators and researchers have gone to bat trying to combat it. That naturally guarantees it a place of honor in the cornerstone of Wikipediot Fundamentalism, but I'm a little surprised to see otherwise educated people toeing its misbegotten line.
Jon Awbrey