There is a quote from the article which I find interesting, "People who make
their knowledge available to the internet community as with the open
source programs from e.g. Linux gain neither reputation nor royalties."
While I'm pretty sure we don't want to start paying each other royalties I
think we could provide references to Wikipedia editors who might be applying
for college, for a job, making a book proposal, etc.
Fred
From: Mathias Schindler <neubau(a)presroi.de>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:09:56 +0200
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Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Goethe-Institute about wikipedia
http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/int/thm/en162039.htm
Free knowledge for free citizens of the world
The Wikipedia online encyclopaedia
Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia to which anyone can contribute and
whose articles can be read and reused free of charge. The German
language version now contains over 100,000 articles. But opinions about
this grass-roots encyclopaedia differ widely: some people are talking
about a free knowledge revolution, while others criticise Wikipedia¹s
unreliability as a source of information.
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