[WikiEN-l] Ads on Wikipedia?
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Mon Jan 2 02:01:05 UTC 2006
Rob wrote:
>On 1/1/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I thought the goal was to build an
>>encyclopaedia - so does it matter how many people are reading it?
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>What's the point of an encyclopedia that no one uses?
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It's not necessary for people to get it from *us*. Our goal is to write
an encyclopedia. Once an encyclopedia starts emerging, the distribution
task can be done by anyone, by the nature of open/free content
licensing. And it's a valuable enough resource that that is virtually
guaranteed to happen---we've already started seeing high-quality
3rd-party redistribution, such as the German paper version.
-Mark
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