QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sat 26th November 2011, 1:51pm)
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QUOTE(Alison @ Sat 26th November 2011, 1:45pm)
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Sat 26th November 2011, 5:37am)
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I talked to Durova about doing just that. Many of the FAs (like Simpsons articles) are worthless. But yeah.
What about the Emperor, think he would be willing to host a second Wiki of just GAs/FAs on some standard topics and only have a few people able to edit it on request, and find out how well it does after a year or so?
Wasn't that kinda what
Veropedia was all about? It was a noble effort on the part of Danny Wool, but it ultimately failed.
Wikipedia works by the 'network effect'. For the whole thing to work, you need the Google effect, and for links to all the other parts of the encyclopedia to be available. Did Veropedia have that?
I suspect the trouble was that its supporters had narrow interests, looked after their owned articles and then lost momentum as they were a pretty narrow clique and had no visibility outside the vaguely interested subset of Wikipedians. These other encyclopedias never have the manpower to get to critical mass.
In the end, the trick would have to be that it would be a layer over the top of Wikipedia - so that dead links in the Veropedia were redirected to Wikipedia, and any links from that were intercepted and checked for the Veropedia. You would also want Google to take the Veropedia version in preference to the Wikipedia version which would require Google to hack its algorithms.
If WMF owned both versions, then they could work such tricks, but anyone else would be at the whim of Google to try and make any impression - I doubt anyone much goes to Wikipedia through its main page.