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Old 01-25-2013, 10:25 PM   #315
Achon
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Re: In defense of all MUDs. Our genre's noteworthiness is being questioned.

I agree, Wikipedia is an amazing collaborative effort! Though, idealistic as it
might seem, I often wish it had evolved to be a less centralized; more like a
multitude of cooperative encyclopedias adhering to similar principles but
permitted (and even expected) to diverge on issues. I mean there's plenty of
storage space for different viewpoints, why not allow them all? This would
better reflect how the internet was designed and serve to limit the domain of
misguided administrators, allowing people to decide for themselves what
constituted "important" information.

What prevents a distributed encyclopedia with a quality similar to Wikipedia?
What would be the major obstacles? Most likely it would require some kind of
central organization.

Although I haven't really worked with the Wikimedia tools (other than editing),
it seems here that deletion is a misnomer. When something is deleted it's
(generally) not possible to restore the contents. Deletion means permanent
destruction, in this case articles are simply hidden. I suppose it's possible
that some low priority content or blatant vandalism and such is marked for
eventual deletion. So maybe deleted means effectively deleted.
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