It seems like a genuinely collaborative project, where articles are intended to be useful and somewhat more evergreen, would probably end up looking something like Wikipedia or perhaps an open source project.
There needs to be some concept of shared goals, a sense of organization and incompleteness, of at least a rough plan with obvious gaps to be filled in. Furthermore, attempts to fill the gaps need to be welcomed.
Wikipedia had the great advantage of previous examples to follow. People already knew what an encyclopedia was supposed to be.
I suspect that attempts at a “better discussion board” are too generic to inspire anyone. Someone needs to come up with a more specific and more appealing idea of what the thing will look like when it’s built out enough to actually be useful. How will you read it? what would you learn?
Wikipedia revolves around it’s concept of consensus. A system where changes are voted upon and there’s no need to have discussions to come to a consensus will have substantially different dynamics and not simply be another Wikipedia.
It seems like a genuinely collaborative project, where articles are intended to be useful and somewhat more evergreen, would probably end up looking something like Wikipedia or perhaps an open source project.
There needs to be some concept of shared goals, a sense of organization and incompleteness, of at least a rough plan with obvious gaps to be filled in. Furthermore, attempts to fill the gaps need to be welcomed.
Wikipedia had the great advantage of previous examples to follow. People already knew what an encyclopedia was supposed to be.
I suspect that attempts at a “better discussion board” are too generic to inspire anyone. Someone needs to come up with a more specific and more appealing idea of what the thing will look like when it’s built out enough to actually be useful. How will you read it? what would you learn?
Wikipedia revolves around it’s concept of consensus. A system where changes are voted upon and there’s no need to have discussions to come to a consensus will have substantially different dynamics and not simply be another Wikipedia.