Skyring wrote:
I was thinking along the lines of a "printed" Wikipedia and a "working" Wikipedia. The "printed" version could be what you describe above, perhaps under a different name of Brikipedia or Slikipedia or Chikipedia.org, and it could be printed on demand or distributed on CD or made available on the web, the selling point being that it is accurate, uptodate and free of nasty surprises such as lewd images or vandalised articles. Possibly the lewd images could be available if you jump through a few hoops, click on a warning notice and provide a credit card merely for verification purposes. <g> Meanwhile the Wikipedia we know and love keeps on churning away in all its glory producing an uptotheminute and occasionally shocking encyclopaedia with all the merriment and mayhem of edit wars, debates over clitoral images and so on.
I find it quite interesting that, after all this debate, we've ended up with a suggested solution that involves pretty much realizing the dream that started all this wacky Wikipedia fun: an encyclopedia on every schoolchild's desk.
-- Chad