Re: Apple II Wikipedia articles

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

>Remember, the Wikipedia is a huge target and it's not invulnerable. In
>fact, it's frequently blocked and censored by some because some idiot
>disagrees with some political, social or sexual idea expressed within.

When I write my "List of Apple II pornographic software" I'll make sure
to do it on Apple II Guide dot Niet.   ......  <I'm Joking!!!>

Seriously, on a more realistic note:

>And again I am somewhat mystified as to this enormous doubt about
>myself and Apple2Guide.net. I started The Apple II Beginner's Guide in
>1999, almost two years before the Wikipedia even existed!

Right, but you didn't decide to become an Apple II encyclopedia until
quite recently, well after Wikipedia had a base of Apple II content.

Interesting, why did you deviate from a Beginner's Guide?  A "How to do
GSOS, Prodos, Install Hardware, turn the thing on, set up hard drive
partitions, beginner guide" would be exactly something that this
community needs.  That sounds a lot more useful.  Like you said, you've
already got the Beginner's Guide content.  No point in being an
encyclopedia with all the Apple II information on Wikipedia so well
developed though.

>However, I won't be copying whole articles overanymore. I've decided it's not a good
>idea.

Maybe it is.... possibly if you don't JUST want to be a guide, you can
be a guide and likewise Mirror wikipedia's Apple II ecyclopedic
content?  You'd still be in a quandry when you had a link like "DMA",
"SCSI", "DB19", or "operating system", do you mirror those too to
maintain ecyclopedic integrity of the article?  But of course thats no
different if you have to use those terms on Apple2guide.net right now.
Its a lot easy to mirror then have to maintain stuff like that from
scratch.

In my opinion, think that apple2guide.net has some potetial, its just
needs to be better defined and more focused into something thats needed
rather than what it is now.

Opinion IS the mother of all controversy.

- Paul