On 11/12/2010 04:12, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Four or five years ago I quite confidently pronounced
it unlikely that
the success of Wikipedia could be sustained beyond 2010. Once the
novelty wore off, I thought, people would drift away to the next shiny
new thing.
You weren't wrong about that, in the sense that the twittersphere has
attracted (at leas some of) those mostly driven by instant updating.
Leaving an adequate but hardly overmanned reference utility that is
actually used by tens of millions daily to look things up. We appear to
have avoided the death spiral, and it is even possible that a somewhat
smaller workforce that had higher median clue was what the project needed.
Charles