On 21/11/05, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
They found what is pretty much the real state of
Wikipedia right now;
that we have some excellent articles, a fair number which are OK but
need improvement, and some real stinkers. We've come a long way, BUT
there's still a long way to go.
David Gerard has argued that "if we want a good encyclopedia in ten
years, it's going to have to be a good Wikipedia" - the Rubicon of
free-content has been crossed, and good-but-costly doesn't handle well
against free-but-patchy in the marketplace (at least, not in the
general public sphere).
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/more_on_wikiped.php
We've come a long way, and there's still a long way to go - but the
key third clause is, arguably, that we've already gone too far to
stop...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk