On Feb 13, 2008 6:34 PM, Meg Ireland megireland99@gmail.com wrote:
Not so sure. If all encyclopaedias stopped being paper and went online free, it could seriously bite into the number of people donating to Wikipedia. It stands to reason more people may spend their internet time looking at these encyclopaedias for information, than Wikipedia.
... If they had all the qualities of Wikipedia then why would we need donations? Mission accomplished!
But they don't. Thus my prior post.
So how do we emphasize qualities W,X,Y of Wikipedia when the public still thinks of it mostly in terms of Z?