thekohser

It’s no longer worth trying to help Wikipedia. The “management” is stuck in this “authoritarian utopia” model, where they have the one and only vision to move the encyclopedia forward . . . but they’re spending WAY too much time arguing about things like “what constitutes original research” and “what’s the best way to delete a category that we don’t want to maintain”.

It’s coming apart at the seams; so I’ll do all my future contributing to wikis at Centiare.com.

Good editors of Wikipedia now spend more time doing battle with trolls, then arguing amongst themselves about the best way to battle trolls. I’ve gotten tired of all the nonsense. I’ll edit at Centiare.com from now on.

I’m co-developing a robust wiki that has enabled Semantic MediaWiki. It’s at Centiare.com, and I hope that it will become a huge database of personal and enterprise Directory listings. The cool thing we’re doing is that we’re assigning “ownership” of space to contributors.

That way, if you want to create an awesome, semantically tagged listing about your IT consulting firm, you can. And nobody else will be able to edit or vandalize it. But, if you’re writing on a non-ownable topic (e.g., the Rocky Mountains, rainfall, or dogs), it’s traditional, community-edited space.

I encourage folks to check it out, if you’re truly interested in “building the semantic web”.