--- actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
Don't sweat it so much. Sure wikipedia has the "goal" of being an encyclopedia, but achieving that goal would be a disappointment, it would become just another encyclopedia, something the world doesn't need. The real goal of wikipedia should be to become what wiki techniques and philosophy can achieve when it "tries" to become an encyclopedia. But it shouldn't try so hard that it abandons the wiki approach that makes it unique.
Wiki is only a means to an end, not an end unto itself. Without a product, there is no purpose in what we are doing. But by using the methods we have been using, we have started to redefine what an encyclopedia *can* be when there are no size limits.
-- mav
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