Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Jake Nelson wrote:
Of course, the second organization taking care of Wikipedia publication idea is a very good one as well. In that case, they'd handle "reader mode" for the most part, and core-Wikipedia would be pretty much strictly an editing project.
Yeah, helpdesk-l has had quite a few "where can I get a book/CD/DVD/Palm version of your content?" emails...
Step 1: Learn German Step 2: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866400012 Step 3: :D
For 'hardcopy' (DVDs, books, etc) outsourcing this makes sense, and that's what we do now. Anybody who wants to put in the effort and money to publish that kind of stuff can do so, and there's some great folks in Germany doing just that, and giving back by supporting Wikimedia.
For the web, things are a bit different. Our own web site is out there in the public eye, seen as the authoritative version, way up in page rank, etc. So it's up to us to take at least some minimum measures to make sure we're serving the public. That'll mean making more effort to mark things as changing, recently changed, unreviewed, etc, and if we have stable/reviewed content making it reeeeeal easy to see (preferably by default for the random visitor, with the latest updates a click away).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)