--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It's always been intended for offline use as well, and there's been some progress toward this:
There is a lot of quantitative progress. But with the current rules you cannot create an *encyclopedia*.
To be encyclopedic, wikipedia has to invent the culture-independent encyclopedic style, which goes beyond existing nation-centric scholarship (actually, it's easier for technical fields).
I see "WP:NPOV" and "WP:RS" as good ideological foundations for this work. But for now, it's like Communism and Soviet Russia: The ideology sounds good, but it is not yet here, and we don't know if it is actually feasible.
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