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by xacky 3 hours ago
This is now the end of Wikipedia for me, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the admins try to split the wiki into endless forks.
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... I mean, Sanger very publicly broke up with Wikipedia almost a quarter of a century ago. You may be a bit late.
Always thought the dencrentalisation and forking of Wikipedia would be the endgame. Would allow for people to actually curate their own spaces again. Wikipedia is a great project, but I feel it's basically complete, and is technically limited.

Half the references are dead or paywalled, so it's impossible to actually read more about anything. I'm sure AI would effectively be able to recreate webs of knowledge.

Indexing services which compare different forks and communities providing different 'lenses' on topics would be incredibly interesting.

Would give various institutions around the world something to do, aswell; curating their space and giving a badge of approval to provide a slight anti-slop defence.

did you read the reason why he was blocked? I can't say who's right or wrong but their reasons for blocking him seem to be valid in nature.
I've been following Wikipedia almost since it began, the stated reason is not matching the actual reason, They've wanted Larry Gone for years, even Jimmy will very be betrayed eventually. Unfortunately the real aftermath won't be known until many more get banned.
I found the thread hard to parse.[0].

Can you explain the reason? from a brief skim he is promoting some project he wants to start in wikipedia from outside wikipedia, is that it or did I misunderstand?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noti...

Simple.

He broke this rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing

This is fairly straightforward, with the result (blocked from editing) mentioned clearly. It doesn't matter the topic.

Being a cofounder is immaterial.