[Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun Oct 24 19:29:40 UTC 2010


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> No, "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" is not consistent with any rational
> definitions of "Wikipedia" and "encyclopedia".

Even Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia doesn't call Wikipedia an
encyclopedia, it calls it "a free, web-based, collaborative,
multilingual encyclopedia project".  A project, not an encyclopedia.



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