[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is forever.

[Adam Lorenz]

Hehe, look at [[WP:LAST]]

:)

Adam

On 7/15/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> On 15 Jul 2006 at 00:34, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Along these lines:
> > Will anyone care in a year? two years? ten years? one hundred years?
> >
> > Wikipedia is forever.
>
> This is an interesting line of discussion... Just what does everybody
> think is likely to be the future of Wikipedia in ten, one hundred,
> one thousand, ... years?
>
> Barring a total catastropic collapse of civilization (and possibly
> even then), it's likely that some copy of some portion of some
> version of Wikipedia will survive somewhere, given its wide
> dissemination.  Such a thing will likely be an imporant resource for
> future historians / archeologists / anthropologists / etc.
> researching human culture of the early 21st century.
>
> However, in such a scenario, the surviving Wikipedia would be merely
> a "dead" historical document, albeit a massive one with many
> alternative versions.
>
> Or, is it the belief here that a "living" Wikipedia, still being
> actively updated and open to such updates from the general public,
> will continue to exist for centuries to come?
>
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