[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all

Would you please explain what do you mean as "reference-style knowledge"?


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live
> in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable
> information and data are available freely...
>
> It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use
> different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo (for instance) but
> also POV specialist reference works.  There is an audience for that,
> and they should also be encouraged to contribute to free knowledge.
> And if someone can find a way to keep professional encyclopedists from
> dying out as a breed, that would be good.  I don't want to see other
> reference works go out of business; I do want to see them adopt free
> licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all
> be free.
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kul Takanao
> Wadhwa<kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them
>>> find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is
>>> by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
>>> there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
>>> specialist works
>>
>> SJ - Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
>> could fit?
>>
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