Erik Moeller wrote:
The other reason I see is that the German world wide web is a bunch of crap, and everyone knows that we're one of the best things that have happened to it in the last 5 years ;-)
Perhaps this is one of the bigger differences... I've had trouble convincing people that Wikipedia is all that useful, because they just think "well, I could google for this", and chances are they'd get something back, maybe even something good. Now obviously we're better than just googling for an answer, and every day we're getting even better, but many English-speaking people are used to being able to find answers to most of their questions online anyway through some searching, and there is indeed a lot of stuff already out there, so it takes some more convincing to show them that Wikipedia really *is* different (and better) than what's already there.
-Mark