[WikiEN-l] More slogans

[David Gerard]

On 25/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I was wondering if we wanted to try and get some kind of one-sentence
> slogan/summary/motto/mantra to explain exactly how authoritative
> Wikipedia is and isn't, and how it should and should not be used.


In interviews I say "We're very far from perfect, but we're *good
enough to be useful*."


> - Wikipedia is the first word on everything and the last word on
> nothing. (We want to be the first place everyone comes to look up
> *anything*, but we don't claim to be the final word on *anything*,
> because we're always based on other sources which have more detail
> than we do).


Not sure it's marketable ;-) but "last word on nothing, first word on
everything" seems to me an excellent way of describing what an
encyclopedia is for.


- d.