[WikiEN-l] In 2006, Wikipedia started to exist (according to the world of Britannica)

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 8/7/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
<snip>
>> Looking at the rest of the snippet though, I see "Open source
>> refers to both a model of software development and an ideology of 
>> intellectual property."  There again are those two things which I 
>> think are the most striking difference(s) in Wikipedia.
> 
> I don't think most Wikipedians are open source fanatics.

No, but Wikipedia has certainly opened us up to such things :) It's a
great example of "open source really can work".

> And I don't think Wikipedia being "closed source" (say there were no
> db dumps, contributors retained full copyright over contributions,
> and there was no GFDL in play) would radically alter anything.

For the most part, contributors still /do/ retain fully copyright; but
if you made it "one author per article" we'd become E2.

> It would reduce the motivation for many contributors, but it would
> not actively interfere with getting the job done.
> 

I disagree on the second point.

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