On 14/02/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
As for threatening the project's existence, this is not going to happen just with Brockhaus or Britannica publishing online. We are a wiki, and that means we will always update faster and better than static sites.
Some arrogant pontification:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2008/02/14/worse-is-better/
Worse is better, yet again.
Could Brockhaus or Britannica become Wikipedia? If so, what would that entail? Could they keep their marketed reliability? (We'll gloss over for the moment the fact that Britannica's content disclaimer leaves Wikipedia's in the shade.)
- d.