[Wikipedia-l] Re: Encarta goes wiki - sort of...

[David Gerard]

Faraaz Damji (frazzydee at spymac.com) [050414 08:08]:

> I don't think that there will be dedicated editors like there are on
> Wikipedia, and like there were on Nupedia, since encarta is completely
> for profit- they're in it for the money and NOT for providing free
> access to "the sum of all human knowledge." There might be some casual
> editors who, upon finding something that wasn't previously there, will
> submit it (eg. if somebody died).  There is little reason I see for
> anybody going on the site for the purpose of improving it.


It might keep the POV-pushers occupied. Then maybe they'll bother us less.
(I can only hope.)


- d.