Making people feel good is ultimately the best reason for archiving the data
- I would agree. And that is synergistic with what I think is the best
strategy for long term archiving, which is giving a complete copy to every
single person in the world. If we were to invest in a class of technologies
it would have to be those that allow for widespread dissemination. A working
dump process is the logical next step..:)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Yeah, I'm still going to say the entire idea
is ridiculous.
I wouldn't go quite that far. The idea of doing it (or having done it)
makes people feel good, due to the collective sci-fi-like fantasy
implicitly promulgated by the project itself -- a future world of
poverty and decay, saved by the serendipitous discovery of a
time-capsule sent from the past. It's a spectacle, a stunt, and it has
PR value.
I certainly don't begrudge the Long Now Foundation for having done
this with the Rosetta Project, since their primary goal is to
encourage long-term thinking, and expensive stunts are obviously a key
part of that.
But Wikimedia's goals are somewhat different, and we could probably
find some stunts which are more relevant to our mission.
-- Tim Starling
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