On 3/1/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I certainly hope it's our goal. I'm not a huge fan of consumerism or elitism, which follow from a goal of not including everyone in the potential editorship pool.
I thought the goal, as Jimbo put it, was about putting encyclopaedias in the hands of poor African communities. Are we then expecting them to log onto wikipedia.org to become editors? Similarly, most people see the publication of wikipedia in paper format in the next year or two as an appealing goal - do we expect purchasers of this version to come back here and start working away?
It might be nice if they did, to "counter systemic bias", but it's not at all realistic to expect that, is it?
Steve