[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[George Herbert]

On 1/25/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Michael Hopcroft wrote:
> > It is probably time we recognized that the very concept of Wikipedia --
> > "An encyclopedia that anyone can edit, that will become the best
> > encyclopedia in the world" is utterly self-contradictory and therefore
> > impossible to achieve.
>
> It's probably a good thing we didn't recognize this was impossible
> before we went ahead and actually achieved it.
>
> Seriously, by a number of quite reasonable standards Wikipedia already
> _has_ become the best encyclopedia in the world. It's got more breadth,
> it's cheaper, its IP rights are more flexible, and it's probably more
> widely used than the old standbys like Britannica or World Book. It even
> has comparable levels of accuracy. I'm very, very happy with what
> Wikipedia has made of itself and have no desire to throw out any bits of
> baby on account of the bathwater that's still mixed in with it.

Yeah,  "Just" having created what's arguably the world's best, and at
least competitively good encyclopedia in a few years, from scratch,
with essentially no budget other than operations, is good enough for
me.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com