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Mostly it means that this is a community of wiki people writing about wiki. Wiki was around for 6-7 years before Wikipedia and MediaWiki - Wiki is not defined by Wikipedia, it is the other way around. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | Mostly it means that this is a community of wiki people writing about wiki. Wiki was around for 6-7 years before Wikipedia and MediaWiki - Wiki is not defined by Wikipedia, it is the other way around. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | ||
:There are a lot of different ways of "writing about wiki", though. Wikipedia uses an encyclopedia format to do so, with articles like [[wp:Citizendium]], [[wp:Jimbo Wales]], [[wp:history of wikis]], etc. My question is basically, should WikiIndex pages be full-fledged encyclopedia articles that can cover the subjects in their entirety, or are they just supposed to be a template with some statistics and links; a few sentences very briefly describing the wiki, wiki person, or wiki idea; and a bunch of categories? | :There are a lot of different ways of "writing about wiki", though. Wikipedia uses an encyclopedia format to do so, with articles like [[wp:Citizendium]], [[wp:Jimbo Wales]], [[wp:history of wikis]], etc. My question is basically, should WikiIndex pages be full-fledged encyclopedia articles that can cover the subjects in their entirety, or are they just supposed to be a template with some statistics and links; a few sentences very briefly describing the wiki, wiki person, or wiki idea; and a bunch of categories? Even if the scope of WikiIndex is limited to wikis, wiki people, and wiki ideas, that doesn't prevent it from being an encyclopedia ''that is limited to covering those topics''. | ||
:In other words, do you mean that (1) it's not a general encyclopedia (i.e. a work that, like Wikipedia, seeks to be the sum of all knowledge), or (2) it's not an encyclopedia at all — not even an encyclopedia of wikis, but rather an index of wikis? "Encyclopedia" is defined as "a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically." Thus there are general encyclopedias and more specific encyclopedias. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 19:31, 12 May 2014 (UTC) | :In other words, do you mean that (1) it's not a general encyclopedia (i.e. a work that, like Wikipedia, seeks to be the sum of all knowledge), or (2) it's not an encyclopedia at all — not even an encyclopedia of wikis, but rather an index of wikis? "Encyclopedia" is defined as "a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically." Thus there are general encyclopedias and more specific encyclopedias. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 19:31, 12 May 2014 (UTC) | ||