T P wrote: I've always been a proponent of the view that Wikipedia is not and never should be a "finished" encyclopedia, but rather is a massive freely-licensed resource from which one can _create_ a "finished" encyclopedia. IMO our main product is database dumps, and our main target user is entities like Answers.com who take those dumps and republish them in some way. In an ideal world people who just wanted to find information and weren't going to do any sort of editing would go to them rather than coming to wikipedia.org, it'd save us bandwidth and server resources. This is why I'm often mentioning and hoping for some form of the long-promised "article validation" feature in these contexts. Something like that could make it much easier for users to cull out the material they want while at the same time not hindering the continuing work we're doing on the "unfinished" stuff back here at the sausage factory.