On Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:18 AM
Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Encyclopedia
!= "database containing all human knowledge". An
encyclopedia is an encyclopedia.
Oh, OK. It's an encyclopedia -- so let's take a look at Wiktionary to
find out what an encyclopedia is:
A reference work (often in several volumes) containing in-depth
articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical
order) dealing with a wide range of subjects or with some
particular specialty.
This doesn't seem to exclude any human knowledge, neither explicitly
nor implicitly. What parts of human knowledge should in your view not
be covered in an encyclopedia, and why?
According to the quoted definition an encyclopedia is 'dealing with a
wide range of subjects'. This implicits that each encyclopedia has
to define this range. So let's start thinking about wikipedias range.
I don't think that we are able to draw an exact line (somewhere between
the [[left screw of the rear break of the bicycle of Uli Fuchs]] and the
[[Mona Lisa]]). But at least an idea where this line could be would help
us a lot in beeing an encyclopedia and not just a parallel World Wide
Web.
Arne
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