[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Samuel Klein]

When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live
in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable
information and data are available freely...

It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use
different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo (for instance) but
also POV specialist reference works.  There is an audience for that,
and they should also be encouraged to contribute to free knowledge.
And if someone can find a way to keep professional encyclopedists from
dying out as a breed, that would be good.  I don't want to see other
reference works go out of business; I do want to see them adopt free
licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all
be free.

SJ


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kul Takanao
Wadhwa<kwadhwa at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>>  - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them
>> find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is
>> by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
>> there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
>> specialist works
>
> SJ - Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
> could fit?
>
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