On 25/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if we wanted to try and get some kind of one-sentence slogan/summary/motto/mantra to explain exactly how authoritative Wikipedia is and isn't, and how it should and should not be used.
In interviews I say "We're very far from perfect, but we're *good enough to be useful*."
- Wikipedia is the first word on everything and the last word on
nothing. (We want to be the first place everyone comes to look up *anything*, but we don't claim to be the final word on *anything*, because we're always based on other sources which have more detail than we do).
Not sure it's marketable ;-) but "last word on nothing, first word on everything" seems to me an excellent way of describing what an encyclopedia is for.
- d.