[WikiEN-l] Wikipeda 1.0 Paper Plus

Tue Aug 19 17:54:21 UTC 2003

Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

> At 05:41 AM 8/19/03 -0400, Lou wrote:
>
>> 1. Complete a list of possible additional paper books to go with the 
>> paper Wikipedia 1.0. Examples would be "The Encyclopedia of Rock", 
>> "The Enc. of Science Fiction, with Character Ibdex", "Star Trek 
>> Encyclopedia", "Enc. of American Biography", etc., etc.
>
> Some of these exist, and probably more thorough than we could manage 
> any time soon.
> There are very thorough encyclopedias of science fiction and of 
> fantasy, for example.
> The online Encyclopedia of Arda is probably a better/more thorough 
> work than we'd have
> if we pulled out all our Tolkien articles.

I agree.  It's really easier for us to compete with a general 
encyclopedia like Britannica than with specialized works as mentioned 
above.  The people who produce specialized works have had years of 
focusing their attention on a pet subject.  Without considerable 
specialist attention our topic based encyclopedias can never be much 
more than extracts of WP.

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