On 14/02/2008, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)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.