on 1/14/09 9:38 AM, White Cat at wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
The Phoenix will surely rise again. How soon? Time will tell.
- White_Cat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
No, just profoundly sad that Wikipedia is in what seems to be an inexorable decline. But idea-based projects generally have about seven years of innovation before they lose steam (see SRI, Xerox PARC, GNU, Apple). Perhaps Wikipedia will enjoy a rebirth, but I expect its natural successor to emerge under a different umbrella. Fortunately, the important thing for posterity is that Wikipedia's core assets are under a free license.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Right now it may take an observatory telescope to detect it but it's there. But that light will only remain there provided we all keep questioning. The important things are, take nothing as "gospel", take nothing as a "given". We must all keep questioning.
Marc