[Wikipedia-l] Partnership with Mandrakesoft

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Thu Sep 23 20:22:05 UTC 2004


On 09/23/04 17:54, Brion Vibber wrote:

> There's a *lot* of crud in general. There will be mistakes. There will 
> be falsehoods. There will be 'FUCKFUCKFUCK' vandalism. And in six months 
> when they go to press, the Wikipedia on the web will be much improved -- 
> but every mistake in their published copy will be preserved indelibly 
> and it's us, not Mandrake, who's going to get the bad press over it.


So are we talking Netscape 6.0, or worse? Or better?

I see lots of good stuff when I edit Wikipedia, but hitting 'random link'
twenty times throws up a sample that says to me 'so not ready for prime
time' ...


- d.



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