On 9/6/05, Travis Mason-Bushman travis@gpsports-eng.com wrote:
On 9/6/05 2:22 PM, "Sam Korn" smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
This is a question to which I don't know the answer. If we can get an answer (and I doubt we will), then it would determine the whole future of Wikipedia.
The question is fundementally "what is more important, wiki-, or -pedia?"
Our social policies are not a suicide pact. They are in place to help us write the encyclopedia... We need to take due process seriously, but we also need to remember: this is not a democracy, this is not an experiment in anarchy, it's a project to make the world a better place by giving away a free encyclopedia. --Jimbo Wales
That says it all to me.
-FCYTravis @ en.wikipedia
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help."
The line between knowledge and trivia is becoming smaller. As the power of computers to store, sort, retreive, and present information in meaningful ways increases, our need for exclusivity, born in the days of chiseled stone slabs, clay tablets, and painted pottery, fades rapidly.
Something revolutionary has begun.
Until we face media shortage, a real relevant question is "At what point does a combination of data become knowledge worth recording?"