[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is not a dictionary (was: Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered)

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 02:31:58 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, MuZemike <muzemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> We must also take into account the popularity factor when it comes to
> comparing WMF wikis. It is obvious of the advantage Wikipedia has over
> all the other wikis in that is immensely more popular and is received
> much more widely than all other wikis.
>
> After pondering that for a while, one can conclude that we have come
> full-circle with regards to previous thread, which discussed briefly the
> dominance and level of "monopoly" Wikipedia has over the freely-editable
> portion of the Internet.


...Hmm.

I guess it's a good sign, if we think of the positives, that in some
areas our closest credible competition for WP is another WMF project.
8-)


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-george william herbert
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