PokeJungle's attempt and reaction (PokéCommunity registration required)
My opinion on the matter: if you think you could do it better, why start from scratch? We have 2300+ articles, covering a very wide range of topics even if lacking in depth (more on this later) - if you seriously have an idea to do things better, then undoubtedly you can contribute to Bulbapedia - unless you feel that there is something fundamentally wrong - in which case it's worth at least telling us what you think.
On forking, my opinion is that wiki encyclopediae are not particularly worth forking. The free market dynamics are simply not there. You can build better mousetraps, better cars, better software, but you can't build a better encyclopedia in quite the same way. (I'll give that you can do something by using different strategies of collecting facts - but, from one wiki to the next: there's not much difference. I'm thinking Britannica vs. Wikipedia here.)
On the other hand, I do have this to ask: how many of you were working on similar projects? Especially those of you who started after December 21, 2004 (the utter beginning of Bulbapedia) but before February 14, 2005 (the unveiling of Bulbapedia) - how did you feel then? How do you feel now?
My opinion on the matter: if you think you could do it better, why start from scratch? We have 2300+ articles, covering a very wide range of topics even if lacking in depth (more on this later) - if you seriously have an idea to do things better, then undoubtedly you can contribute to Bulbapedia - unless you feel that there is something fundamentally wrong - in which case it's worth at least telling us what you think.
On forking, my opinion is that wiki encyclopediae are not particularly worth forking. The free market dynamics are simply not there. You can build better mousetraps, better cars, better software, but you can't build a better encyclopedia in quite the same way. (I'll give that you can do something by using different strategies of collecting facts - but, from one wiki to the next: there's not much difference. I'm thinking Britannica vs. Wikipedia here.)
On the other hand, I do have this to ask: how many of you were working on similar projects? Especially those of you who started after December 21, 2004 (the utter beginning of Bulbapedia) but before February 14, 2005 (the unveiling of Bulbapedia) - how did you feel then? How do you feel now?
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