On 5/11/06, Andrey Fedorov fedorov@rutgers.edu wrote:
Apologies in advance if this has been brought up already, but is there any specific reason wikipedia doesn't use book references as a source of income?
It was tried a couple of years ago, but it was very controversial. See http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-January/thread.html for discussion of it and http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-January/031632.html for the reasons the experiment was ended.
Angela.