On 1/10/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
I think there are better revenue streams for the Wikimedia Foundation to be pursuing, in particular CD/DVD dead-tree versions of Wikipedia/Wikibooks, although those will corrupt the nature of the project too, perhaps in worse ways, so who really knows.
Has de: been corrupted in this sense by the DVD edition? (I'm not entirely clear on what you specifically mean here by "corruption," though I'm very aware that a fixed version will have strong side effects on the dynamics of the wiki, good and bad.)
Right, that's all I'm talking about, in a mock-doomsaying way.
As I understand it (and would welcome correction), Digitalmedia's genius move with this was to set out their quality needs in such a way that the de: Wikipedia volunteers would *want* that work to be done (polishing, referencing, fact-checking, etc).
I really really really want en: to be good enough to pull a DVD-ROM edition from!
Me too! I just worry it'll be used as an excuse for ever-more layers of needless hierarchy and bureacracy, and ever more attempts to make articles suitable for printing to dead trees instead of part of a dynamic web.