On 21/11/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
They found what is pretty much the real state of Wikipedia right now; that we have some excellent articles, a fair number which are OK but need improvement, and some real stinkers. We've come a long way, BUT there's still a long way to go.
David Gerard has argued that "if we want a good encyclopedia in ten years, it's going to have to be a good Wikipedia" - the Rubicon of free-content has been crossed, and good-but-costly doesn't handle well against free-but-patchy in the marketplace (at least, not in the general public sphere).
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/more_on_wikiped.php
We've come a long way, and there's still a long way to go - but the key third clause is, arguably, that we've already gone too far to stop...
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk