I like the idea, I wonder if it has to be ad revenue though. I find that idea (personally) distasteful, but don't have any better ideas besides getting donations.
Maybe this exists, MediaWiki may even support it. What I'd like to see is a wiki that allowed you to populate articles by crossreferencing other pages.
An example:
Page: Lisp <tagged as FP>
A functional programming language invented in...
<Portion marked as summary>
Page: Functional Programming
<Summary of FP>
List of languages in the FP category:
<Populated from tagged articles>
<Populated from summary in tagged articles>
You'd only edit that Lisp summary in one location, then other articles could pull from it as needed. Not sure how well it'd work in practice, and as I said maybe MediaWiki and others support this now. I haven't looked at their features in years.
If you initially constructed your wiki from Wikipedia (and maybe other sources), the initial effort would be on removing this redundancy, but you'd still provide as many articles they'd just be better synchronized with each other. Adding breadth (Scheme, Common Lisp, etc) would be straightforward by sharing whole blocks of text. Shorter articles wouldn't be penalized because they'd just be pulled into others via this same cross referencing mechanism. They could be hidden in some fashion to avoid namespace clutter, but outright deletion would be unnecessary.
Well that was a braindump, and maybe not as coherent as I thought it would be. This is why I should sleep more, and practice describing my ideas to other people for feedback.
EDIT: To continue, a thought I should've included originally, use some form of markup for those pages to autofill parts and maybe autogenerate the summary. A language has a place, person and time of invention. A set of paradigms it may be described as fitting into, a set of parent, children and cousin languages. Marked up, this allows for portions to be very consistent in presentation across pages in a category. I suppose I should look at semantic wikis again. As I said, this was an idea I had years ago and pondered but never really researched.
Maybe this exists, MediaWiki may even support it. What I'd like to see is a wiki that allowed you to populate articles by crossreferencing other pages.
An example:
You'd only edit that Lisp summary in one location, then other articles could pull from it as needed. Not sure how well it'd work in practice, and as I said maybe MediaWiki and others support this now. I haven't looked at their features in years.If you initially constructed your wiki from Wikipedia (and maybe other sources), the initial effort would be on removing this redundancy, but you'd still provide as many articles they'd just be better synchronized with each other. Adding breadth (Scheme, Common Lisp, etc) would be straightforward by sharing whole blocks of text. Shorter articles wouldn't be penalized because they'd just be pulled into others via this same cross referencing mechanism. They could be hidden in some fashion to avoid namespace clutter, but outright deletion would be unnecessary.
Well that was a braindump, and maybe not as coherent as I thought it would be. This is why I should sleep more, and practice describing my ideas to other people for feedback.
EDIT: To continue, a thought I should've included originally, use some form of markup for those pages to autofill parts and maybe autogenerate the summary. A language has a place, person and time of invention. A set of paradigms it may be described as fitting into, a set of parent, children and cousin languages. Marked up, this allows for portions to be very consistent in presentation across pages in a category. I suppose I should look at semantic wikis again. As I said, this was an idea I had years ago and pondered but never really researched.
EDIT: Missing newlines.