## 5 Discussion  
In this section, we deal with a number of objections to our proposal. Given the controversial nature of our suggestions, which have received a considerable amount of emotional protest, we will do so in the form of frequently asked questions (FAQ). This admittedly is an uncommon format for a scientific paper but it has the advantage that the sceptic will see his objection raised and, hopefully, eliminated in the sequel. **Is this not just reinventing the World Wide Web? ** The World Wide Web does not have a user-friendly _click-to-edit_ interface and is no (virtual) _one-interface-shop_ for information. Web authoring requires server accounts and HTML-knowledge and it is less mainstream than a Wiki. WP itself did not form in the wild of an open World Wide Web but only developed after a unifying conceptual hood had been offered. **Who will want this? ** [PERSON], who wants to look up basic information, will not bother. Initially such a system will be used by knowledge workers and researchers with an every-day experience regarding contradicting points of view and with a need for managing diverging perspectives. Later, more mainstream adoption might follow. **Providing every point of view is not the purpose of an encyclopedia! ** This objection is valid, if one understands an encyclopedia as a normative document, reflecting the values, customs and standards of a particular society or culture. However, if one defines an encyclopedia in a more common way, similarly as Wikipedia as _a comprehensive written compendium holding information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge_ or as [PERSON] [33]_to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; [...] and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race_. then this definition of an encyclopedia calls for content neutrality: Every point of view which might be taken towards a particular branch of knowledge should be presented, without the undue requirement of harmonizing the branches by a single linguistic approach or neutralizing specific points of view which might shed important light on certain aspects. An important task of Wikipedia is the guidance function to the reader by providing a first approach to a new topic. EPOV will confuse the reader by a wealth of unwanted variants. The reader will not see every variant in the system and he or she may decide to see only the top five variants or even only a single variant, which might realize a traditional NPOV Wikipedia inside an EPOV Wikipedia. The important point is not the number of variants, which are presented to the reader but a situation, which places the reader in charge of the selection process instead of an editor or the author. The reader may delegate this selection but delegation should not be forced or automatic. Will content diffusion into different variants combined with a smart recommender mechanism not lead to everyone being presented his own and unrealistic fantasy world? We already today have a media world, which exhibits exactly these artifacts. The newspapers we buy, the links we click, the stories we listen to present us with a highly synthetic world, which we produce as a result of our media selection acts. EPOV is not new, it just makes a bit more apparent that _media-generated \"reality\" is merely a result of consumer choices and producer business cases_, and completely detached from that what we sometimes may call a \"true reality\". **How can article quality be maintained in a variant Wiki? ** Today, WP stores versions of bad quality as part of its page history. However, they are only available upon special action of the reader. Thus, variants do not damage total text quality but only downgrade perceived text quality, as bad articles get higher end-user visibility.