[Wikipedia-l] A Solution to Larry Sanger's Criticisms - Project Has Been Around For A While

Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 7 03:28:22 UTC 2005


At 12:16 AM 1/7/2005 +0200, NSK wrote:
>I once saw a professor visiting a Wikipedia article on maths found from a
>Google search, but he abandoned it just after a few seconds. Another
>professor has advised us never to cite material not hosted on .edu or .ac.uk
>or other educational domains.
>
>If Wikipedia does not change its attitudes, it will eventually die from brain
>drain: New, more expertise-friendly and intellectual wikis will emerge and
>WP's knowledgeable users will just immigrate there.

Alternately, you seem to be suggesting that Wikipedia needs to do is get an 
.edu or .ac.uk domain name.


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