On 6/3/06, Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist@googlemail.com wrote:
However, four different viewpoints of the Wikipedia have emerged recently:
- It is an encyclopedia with a community
- It is a community with an encyclopedia
- It is an encyclopedia
- It is a community
Interesting. The dichotomy I most often see, that people have trouble deciding on, is :
- Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia - Wikipedia is a project to create an encyclopaedia
It's probably more of a naming thing than anything else, but it does imply a point of view on whether the encyclopaedia has actually been created yet. Is the online version of Wikipedia an encyclopaedia, or is it a peek into a work in progress?
Steve