Ceasar / Encyclopedia

Tool for keeping a hypermedia encyclopedia
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State the mission of the project #25

Open Ceasar opened 10 years ago

Ceasar commented 10 years ago

This is an obvious argument against writing one's own encyclopedia. A refutation is in order.

Ceasar commented 10 years ago

It may be helpful to begin here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia

dget commented 10 years ago

I don't think you even need to criticize Wikipedia (though you surely can) as much as show off what you can do here that's not appropriate for an encyclopedia-for-all.

Ceasar commented 10 years ago

I didn't specify the issue clearly. I should have written "Argue why Wikipedia is insufficient for X". I'm not certain what X is though. I'll rename this to "state the mission of the project", and then part of the argument will then include "criticize Wikipedia as it relates to X".

Ceasar commented 10 years ago

Very roughly, my goal for the project seems to be to create the best tool for studying independently. More concretely this seems to include:

The target audience should be people who want to study things deeply, perhaps, for instance, including power users of Evernote; the goal here is less of being a filedump and more of creating a tool to help people study new things and not forget old things.