-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
The continuing arguments around VfD/AfD suggests
that some of the
community does not understand -- or believe -- that there is a goal
to this project, a place where our Wiki will eventually end. I suspect
that FF has found another end point to our Wiki.
Britannica has been editing and rewriting and adding to their
encyclopedia for two hundred and thirty-seven years now, with no sign
that they're planning to stop changing stuff and publish the "Final
Encyclopedia" any time soon. Why do you think Wikipedia is likely to
start reaching an "endpoint" any time in the forseeable future? I think
a version-rating method is probably vital in the near future to prevent
our best articles from backsliding, we've become good enough in many
areas that IMO this is a real concern. But we're nowhere near "done,"
and since the corpus of human knowledge is itself constantly changing I
doubt we ever will be.
If you compare Britannica's articles on some "old dead dude" from the
1911 version and the 2005 version I think you would find that they
really haven't changed.
- --
Alphax | /"\
Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign
OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards
http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -
http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iQEVAwUBQ2GqILMAAH8MeUlWAQheCQgAlSXBmnF7RcTJs54us4mnTX7SsKOhnR4D
q5yBTzDD5qw5HNIjyTzjsuQNrivSGzYnfxkkMKAfFf7DkXcKB0OAqVYXSJVfADXy
U03o9uItZX6vO3eNO8IXsFRanZNfCGpsl9Hcf8FAP/+xyiNPfsTD1sQYq8djDaND
WekRFI6fnw9LWA22Dze3q5HiPr+11E9YBo/FBzjBvUui4/4hwvERn8xqCebZb+iC
pbjsGHJTpoTKko4x9fekxylYc7dxwbTpWeRWNnHdUz7qzRWuAkzYdzv1JnSHsAd7
w2YVmC7mNWTo4Jz6850MORsTg1y8M6Hp1NnIhehSBb26r0e/YhDWig==
=E5z0
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----