Nice words of encouragement. Thomas :-(. What are you afraid of?
on 7/7/08 12:52 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Why would I encourage someone to do something I think is a bad idea? I'm trying to be realistic, not encouraging. I'm afraid someone who appears to be a good person is going to end up wasting a lot of time on an idea which is doomed from the outset.
Well, Thomas, there are some who don't believe in your prophecy of doom. And that is where the hope lives.
It isn't size that is going to prove the true competitor of Wikipedia. It is going to be quality, accuracy and consistency. And, a true non-cultist approach to the work.
Size is extremely important. As long as you have a reasonable level of quality, size is probably the most important factor. The reason people use Wikipedia is because they know the information will be there because we're so large. Whether we're a cult or not is irrelevant - the important thing is readers and readers care about the end result, not how it got there.
Just what is a "reasonable" level of quality? And, the quality of an end result is very much tied to how it got there.
Marc Riddell
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