On 09/10/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that most of the groups that might be interested in that sense are well traditional. Online marketers already understand the web to a degree and even wikipedia to a degree but how would you go about explaining it to a local history group?
The fact that Wikipedia (at least en:wp) is pretty much mainstream - news stories now tend to be about something happening on Wikipedia, rather than the mere dancing-bear fact of its existence - actually works for us to a great extent. "Release your stuff! If you hate Wikipedia, it's still available for Citizendium." etc.
While the 1% rule doesn't hold for wikipedia to the same extent as other projects it is still a major hurdle to overcome and even harder to overcome in the case of those with more traditional ideas of information flow. Markets at least already think in terms of trying to get information to as many people as possible. The traditional gatekeepers of information?
This is why getting those people to think of releasing material as proper free content (rather than free-as-in-beer, the equivalent of CC-by-nc-nd) would be such a win. Corruption from within with the FREE virus!
- d.