Well, there are various reasons to fork from wikipedia, which i think sts wiki does. there is much more perspective about STS that can never be non-neutral in the wikipedia tradition, as is sts-centric. similarly if you try to fit some elements of knowledge into the wikipedia categories, you will run into strong resistance from other traditions... so to have a richer, more meaningful way for the arena of sts, i think a fork had to happen there. given the diversity of the topics that you specify, i'm not sure what will happen, but it is an interesting idea and i support it. On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Alex Halavais wrote:
On 9/21/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
so perhaps something like the stswiki? only with a different scope, or is this going to be integrationist....
Similar only in that it is limited in scope. I am hoping for a resource that is much more closely tied to Wikipedia, in that it will not, itself, be a wiki. stswiki, at least the portions that are pulling from Wikipedia, is more of a fork, in that it hopes to tailor the articles to a particular audience. I am hoping we can certify static articles, while providing a link back to Wikipedia for the "dynamic" version of the same article.
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