SJ (2.718281828(a)gmail.com) [051019 15:55]:
Worth a revisit: Nick Carr publishes David
Gerard's eloquent response
to his last Wikipedia posting, in full; and concurs.
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/more_on_wikiped.php
Wikipedia's critics appear to be shocked when someone familiar with
Wikipedia openly admits it's far from perfect ... I do hope the point I
made here - that Britannica is brilliant and doomed, and if we have a good
encyclopedia in ten years it's going to be Wikipedia in some form -
propagates.
I wrote in about this one too - stressing that Wikipedia itself is run by a
nonprofit, though there are lots of mirrors with Google ads making more or
less of a buck.
- d.