Bryan Derksen wrote:
T P wrote:
Nevertheless, my point was that whether something is "significant enough" to be included in Wikipedia may not be apparent for some time.
I've always been a proponent of the view that Wikipedia is not and never should be a "finished" encyclopedia, but rather is a massive freely-licensed resource from which one can _create_ a "finished" encyclopedia. IMO our main product is database dumps...
Yeah, I think this is one of the more exciting features of Wikipedia. If the goal was just to produce a really good encyclopedia at wikipedia.org, Free licensing would be unnecessary... but if the goal is to put out into the open a huge body of information that opens up thousands of possible uses, then it's of course indispensible.
-Mark