On Aug 10, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Heh, nice thought. When you think about it, if an academic's mission is to spread knowledge about some topic, writing a Wikipedia article or two would probably be a lot more effective than writing a book which very few people will ever read.
The problem is that, generally speaking, an academic's mission is to engage in research. Original research, specifically.
-Phil