[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and the future of open source

[David Gerard]

Ben Yates (bluephonic at gmail.com) [050807 00:25]:

> Hey; I just wrote an article (jist: wikipedia will soon be more
> important than linux) and wanted to get feedback from people who have
> a detailed knowledge of wikipedia (namely, the people on this list).
> http://wikip.blogspot.com/2005/08/future-of-open-source-5-years-ago.html


Love that bar chart ;-) It also explains one of Wikipedia's real problems:
we have a zillion editors making demands, and a way too small number of
actual developers working on the actual MediaWiki code.


- d.