Hi All,
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? Personally, and for many others I'm sure, this would make wikipedia a lot more convenient, as a lot of times I'm looking up the same books I buy on Amazon as topics I'm looking up on wikipedia. For example, I recently bought Proofs From The Book, referenced here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroeder-Bernstein_theorem
Had there been a direct link, I would have saved myself about 10 seconds of opening an Amazon tab and searching for the book, and made Wikipedia a buck or two.
It would also make good sense for there to be a strong correlation between repeat customers on Amazon and frequent visitors on wikipedia (I know I am both...).
Cheers, Andrey
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.