[Foundation-l] More on Wikimedia strategic planning

[geni]

2009/5/2 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
>> If wikipedia like collections of information are still being written
>> by human beings in a couple of decades I will be rather surprised.
>> We've already to a large extent reached the point where the quickest
>> way to fill in info boxes would be computers making suggestions and
>> humans sanity checking them.
>>
>>
>>
> This sounds like a nightmare scenario.  The problem is that as long as
> we are focussed on filling in boxes we fail to think outside the box.
>
> Ec


Not relevant. This is simply the state of the technology at the
moment. People are working on technology that can write entire
articles and eventually generate them on the fly.



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geni