Charles Matthews wrote:
My guess is that 'promoting' wiki is still an unsolved problem. The reasons being that the concept doesn't make anyone money, nor save them time; in fact, just the opposite.
Actually, the Wikipedia *can* save time. It has saved time for me on occasion. I use it the way I'd use a non-wiki encyclopedia, to look up information about topics. Recently, for example, I was doing some writing and research about the California recall election, and I used the Wikipedia article on Arnold Schwarzenegger to look up some basic facts about his life and career, such as the names of movies in which he appeared. Of course, I could have found that information elsewhere on the web by doing a Google search, but the Wikipedia had already pulled it together in a neat little synthesized summary, saving me the time it would take to wade through several dozen Google hits looking for the same information.