On 23 Sep 2004, at 19:54, Brion Vibber wrote:
Wikipedia is a very valuable resource, but it's a *dynamic* one. If you're going to throw away the advantages of our process, you'd better have something else to fall back on.
There's a *lot* of crud in general. There will be mistakes. There will be falsehoods. There will be 'FUCKFUCKFUCK' vandalism. And in six months when they go to press, the Wikipedia on the web will be much improved -- but every mistake in their published copy will be preserved indelibly and it's us, not Mandrake, who's going to get the bad press over it.
-- brion
<AOL> I strongly second that. </AOL>
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]