On 12/22/05, David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
You'd have to spend a whole lot of money to
get human editors to pick
the "useful articles". It might pay off in the really long term, but
it'd require a huge investment. And due to the GFDL some other
company could just come along and take the results of that huge
investment and drive you out of business anyway. I'm not at all
surprised no one is doing it.
They certainly didn't for de:. Oh, wait ...
- d.
You're referring to the producers of the DVD, I assume. I don't know
a whole lot about that project but I assumed they used some automated
method to select articles for inclusion (there was a mention of only
using articles which were last edited by a certain selection of logged
in users), not that they had someone go through each one by hand.
I guess it could be worth it to have someone give a quick one minute
glance to each article. I wouldn't remove stubs though, they're a
huge part of what makes Wikipedia so great. For "only" 200,000
articles at $6/hour it'd cost under $20K. Of course, that kind of
assumes a DVD distribution where the barriers to entry are a bit
higher than web distribution. It's not like many people are going to
pay $10 a pop to read a free encyclopedia on the web.
Anthony