On 9/6/05, Travis Mason-Bushman <travis(a)gpsports-eng.com> wrote:
On 9/6/05 2:22 PM, "Sam Korn"
<smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is a question to which I don't know the
answer. If we can get an
answer (and I doubt we will), then it would determine the whole future
of Wikipedia.
The question is fundementally "what is more important, wiki-, or -pedia?"
Our social policies are not a suicide pact. They are in place to help us
write the encyclopedia... We need to take due process seriously, but we also
need to remember: this is not a democracy, this is not an experiment in
anarchy, it's a project to make the world a better place by giving away a
free encyclopedia.
--Jimbo Wales
That says it all to me.
-FCYTravis @ en.wikipedia
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of
all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your
help."
The line between knowledge and trivia is becoming smaller. As the
power of computers to store, sort, retreive, and present information
in meaningful ways increases, our need for exclusivity, born in the
days of chiseled stone slabs, clay tablets, and painted pottery, fades
rapidly.
Something revolutionary has begun.
Until we face media shortage, a real relevant question is "At what
point does a combination of data become knowledge worth recording?"
--
Michael Turley
User:Unfocused