There is a quote from the article which I find interesting, "People who make their knowledge available to the internet community ­ as with the open source programs from e.g. Linux ­ gain neither reputation nor royalties."

While I'm pretty sure we don't want to start paying each other royalties I think we could provide references to Wikipedia editors who might be applying for college, for a job, making a book proposal, etc.

Fred

From: Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:09:56 +0200 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org, Mailingliste der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wikide-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Goethe-Institute about wikipedia

http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/int/thm/en162039.htm

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