Sj wrote:
U.Penn student Swarat Chaudhury, writing for India's venerable paper / The Statesman / , was more openly optimistic: http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=24&theme=&usrsess=1&a...
"Wikipedia has spawned a sister project called Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org), a collaborative multilingual dictionary with pronunciations, etymology and quotations. The grand ambition of these projects is nothing short of letting the demos beat the experts at their own game... Personally, I still rely on the OED most of the time, but I also look forward to a day when Wiktionary beats it hands down."
I just read it, and find it to be a charmingly written piece. I would caution many readers of the above extract to avoid the popular interpretation of "demos". His closing comment, "democratic in the spirit of the world's largest democracy," seems to strike at the heart of the Wiki world.
Ec