--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
How many "respected encyclopedias" are updated on a day-by-day basis like Wikipedia is, with a front page that shows current events within minutes of their happening and then the next day replaces them with something else newer?
The process by which we create the encyclopedia this encyclopedia is irrelevant. What is relevant is that it is an encyclopedia (the mass majority of our users never edit).
The process is entirely relevant. Wikipedia would be a very poor encylopedia indeed without its Wiki-based community -- Nupedia? Your argument here makes little sense -- you might equally say that we should remove the "Edit this page" link because "no other reputable encyclopedia has it".
Fun brings the community together, and the community builds the encyclopedia. If the joke is harmless and transient, I don't see how we lose here.
-- Matt
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