Would you contribute more if the wiki were blank?
That is a question I am posing on the CZ forum. I think it is a very interesting question, because if the answers come back, “Yes, I would, because repairing mediocre Wikipedia content isn’t nearly as much fun as starting over from scratch would be,” then by golly I’m going to suggest that we jettison the idea of forking Wikipedia, delete all the unchanged Wikipedia articles, and have people start from scratch.
If you want to reply, do it there on the forum rather than here on this blog.
Howdy from Austin, Texas.
As a former newspaper editor and current technical writer, my preference is always to have *something* to work with starting out. Perhaps this could be done according to a consensus among those in charge of particular areas or articles.
Comment by J.D. Williams — January 21, 2007 @ 7:59 am