[Foundation-l] More on Wikimedia strategic planning

[Ray Saintonge]

geni wrote:
> 2009/5/2 Ray Saintonge:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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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So you believe that we should accede to this dystopic reminiscence of 
Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"

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