2008/1/17, Philip Hunt cabalamat@googlemail.com wrote:

I've been reading about your idea of an "Extrapedia" containing articles that Wikipedia doesn't think are notable enough.

I've recently been thinking on similar lines, and have decided to create an inclusionist fork of Wikipedia. You are welcome to use my wiki (when it's up) as your Extrapedia, if you want.

I notice you say "Now I wonder in general: why do there need to be multiple Wikias? Why can't all articles from all Wikias be one wiki?"

Why not indeed? I'm planning a feature I call "micro-wikis" that allows anyone to create a sub-wiki of the main wiki.

How would a micro-wiki work? What would it provide? Why not just use the category system instead? :-) You could modify MediaWiki to allow searches, recent-changes-views, etc. to show content related to the category of your choice only. If the user interface for this category filter system were designed well, maybe it would be a better way to get what you want?

Cheers,