At Mark: More accurate, they are the only humans that
could *deliberately*"screw up" Wikipedia. The project's own community, a
body that arguably
cares more for the success of the encyclopedia than any other, could very
well rip it apart from the inside.
Projects can be destroyed accidentally too.
*Anthony*
user:AGK
2008/8/14
Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>et>:
David, is Wikipedia going to be
"commercialized"?
on 8/14/08 7:32 AM, David Gerard at dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote:
Personally? I doubt it. Although it could legally
run ads I think, I
suspect it would be disastrous in terms of lots of the volunteers
getting up and leaving.
Jimmy Wales was quoted recently as saying: "Given enough time, humans will
screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so
far
it's not too bad."
The only "humans" that could truly "screw up", ruin, better still,
destroy
Wikipedia are those who would, through advertising or other
commercialization, exploit it for their own financial gain.
Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&am…
7-1_3-0-20<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&am…
Marc Riddell
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