On 7/16/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
are sure to be many more. I think you radically underestimate both the desperation of academics for interesting topics, and the sheer value (to academics) of a massive archive of primary source material. Presuming Wikipedia talk page data is available in 20 to 50 to 150 years, I expect considerable scholarly interest in it. As for the
The internet is still only just taking off (particularly in many developing countries), and community projects like this one are still fairly rare. That won't be the case for long.
As for whether there will be a free-content, reader-editable encyclopedia around in some form in 50 years - I strongly suspect (and hope) so. Will it be called Wikipedia? No idea.
Will it be based on Wikipedia's content?
Steve