[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?

[Christiano Moreschi]

I though Wikipedia was about building an encyclopedia, not a community? It doesn't matter how the community works in the slightest, provided it yields the desired product.

I agree with this, though: "Few corporations even begin to grasp the dynamics of a community like ours". This is quite correct. Few corporations even begin to grasp the concept of letting the lunatics take over the asylum. Few corporations tolerate flagrant incompetence, either. Adverts would give us the cash to hire professionals, sweep out the current clutter, and get on with building the interface, presentation, and reliability that we deserve from our position as a top-ten website and world's Number One encyclopaedia. At the moment, we do not merit our elevated status. Some of this is due to lack of cash, plenty more to inability to govern from those who currently do.

Moreschi

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:15:34 +0200
> From: erik at wikimedia.org
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?
> 
> On 10/24/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A corporation willing to invest $10M could very credibly seek to fork
> > Wikipedia, develop an advertising supported model, and introduce changes in
> > the community structure that might attact new volunteers.
> 
> Some things are more likely to happen in theory than in practice. :-)
> Few corporations even begin to grasp the dynamics of a community like
> ours. Wikia is a notable exception; they actually seem to genuinely
> care about building real communities, respect free licensing, etc. But
> look who started that company.
> 
> -- 
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> Erik
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