[Wikipedia-l] The board has overstepped its mandate and authority

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 06:47:15PM -0700, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> 
> --- Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw at users.sf.net> wrote:
> 
> > Think-first act-later is the wrong order of actions. Every (and I
> > mean literally
> > every) successful project was act-first think-later. Wikipedia
> > started this way too.
> 
> There was a lot of thinking done before wikipedia started. (lookup
> GNUpedia on google).

No, you got it wrong - what they came up with was completely unworkable Nupedia.
Wikipedia started as a quick hack.