on 4/2/08 1:11 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The negative effects are the loss of his time. That's only really a
negative effect for him, <snip>
How many innovators have been cautioned not to waste their time on something? I would think that would be for him to be concerned about.
Which is what I said in the part you snipped. Wikipedia is not about innovation - "no original research" ring any bells?
Sounds like a worthwhile project to me.
What will it achieve? In particular, how will it further out goal to provide the sum of human knowledge to people?
Thomas, you speak of "sum" as though it were finite. It's about discovery, perhaps the greatest of purposes.
Discovery would be original research.