On 11/09/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
"Wiki is not paper" is such an unfortunate phrase. Not because of what it stands for -- the fact that we're actually *not* limited by physical informational constraints, which is a wonderful thing -- but because it is used in a way to imply that people who think things are not notable are basing the standard of notability on a notion of physical limitations...
What is this "standard of notability" anyway? I prefer Jimbo's guide to what should and should not be in: if the information is verifiable (ie it's been published somewhere, and most people who are going to interested in it can access it), and it's not original research, it deserves a place.
The point of [[m:wiki is not paper]] is that while it could be thought that including all that information would need a lot of resources to do, it doesn't: the Wikimedia servers have room for tens of *billions* words on their harddrives.
Dan