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Inclusionist 'forks', 'annexes', or 'salvage yards' have been attempted a few times. They usually adopt the same MediaWiki software and general article-format, for familiarity and ease of starting-up.

But, since that stack has coevolved with community practices, it is essentially dependent on the same mentalities, content-standards, and critical mass of contributors in order to function at all. A site that's "exactly Wikipedia, but inclusionist" imports many of the stresses and doctrinal limitations that have fed deletionist urges, but without a vibrant-enough seed community to build the full set of alternate practices that inclusionism would allow.

Between other projects, I've been working on an alternate kind of reference wiki that I believe can capture more info without as much conflict. Variances from standard Wikipedia/MediaWiki I'm trying are:

• all information must be contributed in small capped-size chunks – think about 2-3 times as large as a tweet, or like a Google search result snippet but in complete sentences

• community scoring of chunk quality, so that rough/undersourced/needs-improvement material can live on, somewhat out of view, rather than being lost completely to deletion

• extensive use of atomic, single-click feedback (upvotes, flags, likes, thanks, etc.) for quick reinforcement/correction loops (learning from Facebook, Quora, Twitter, etc.)

Though recent updates are few, you can read more about the plans and progress at my project blog – http://blog.thunkpedia.org. Following the @thunkpedia twitter handle or otherwise contacting me will get you invited to the beta as soon as it opens.



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