[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Bryan Derksen]

Ian Woollard wrote:
> On 07/03/2008, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:
>>  > and scope.
>>
>>  Which should be "everything that exists."
> 
> We already have that project under way. It's called the 'Internet'.

Not remotely comparable. The Internet as a whole isn't under a free 
license, it isn't NPOV, it isn't verifiable, it isn't editable, it 
doesn't have standardized style guides or access methods, etc.

> Please feel free to use it instead of projects that try for more
> uniformly higher quality such as the wikipedia.

I'd rather stick around and continue improving Wikipedia by 
incorporating more knowledge into it.

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