On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:50 AM, geni
<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dead tree technology. Wikipedia based
encyclopedias in the most widely
used languages.
Select the 40K most important articles (that will be fun).
Do you really think the 40K most important Wikipedia articles are more
useful than a set of high school textbooks?
Wikipedia is sometimes good for getting answers to specific questions, or as
a place to find out what you don't know so you can then check other
resources to learn it. But it can't replace a good textbook for learning
something from scratch. Really, no encyclopedia can.
Assuming that I were somewhere in rural Africa, and perfectly
functioning hardware with Wikipedia software loaded in dropped in front
of me from the sky like a magic Coke bottle from the Gods, how much
would I then be able to use that gift to get a better yield from my
little patch of poor farm-land?
Ec