At Mark: More accurate, they are the only humans that could *deliberately*"screw up" Wikipedia. The project's own community, a body that arguably cares more for the success of the encyclopedia than any other, could very well rip it apart from the inside.
Projects can be destroyed accidentally too.
*Anthony*
user:AGK en.wikipedia.org
2008/8/15 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net
2008/8/14 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
David, is Wikipedia going to be "commercialized"?
on 8/14/08 7:32 AM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Personally? I doubt it. Although it could legally run ads I think, I suspect it would be disastrous in terms of lots of the volunteers getting up and leaving.
Jimmy Wales was quoted recently as saying: "Given enough time, humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad."
The only "humans" that could truly "screw up", ruin, better still, destroy Wikipedia are those who would, through advertising or other commercialization, exploit it for their own financial gain.
Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&... 7-1_3-0-20http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9945028-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Marc Riddell
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