On 6/3/06, Joe Anderson <computerjoe.mailinglist(a)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