Bryan Derksen wrote:
T P wrote:
Nevertheless, my point was that whether something
is "significant enough" to
be included in Wikipedia may not be apparent for some time.
I've always been a proponent of the view that Wikipedia is not and never
should be a "finished" encyclopedia, but rather is a massive
freely-licensed resource from which one can _create_ a "finished"
encyclopedia. IMO our main product is database dumps...
Yeah, I think this is one
of the more exciting features of Wikipedia.
If the goal was just to produce a really good encyclopedia at
wikipedia.org, Free licensing would be unnecessary... but if the goal is
to put out into the open a huge body of information that opens up
thousands of possible uses, then it's of course indispensible.
-Mark