[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is forever.

On 15 Jul 2006 at 00:34, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is an interesting line of discussion... Just what does everybody think is likely to be the future of Wikipedia in ten, one hundred, one thousand, ... years? Barring a total catastropic collapse of civilization (and possibly even then), it's likely that some copy of some portion of some version of Wikipedia will survive somewhere, given its wide dissemination. Such a thing will likely be an imporant resource for future historians / archeologists / anthropologists / etc. researching human culture of the early 21st century. However, in such a scenario, the surviving Wikipedia would be merely a "dead" historical document, albeit a massive one with many alternative versions. Or, is it the belief here that a "living" Wikipedia, still being actively updated and open to such updates from the general public, will continue to exist for centuries to come? -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/