Erik Moeller wrote:
The other reason I see is that the German world
wide web is a bunch
of crap, and everyone knows that we're one of the best things that
have happened to it in the last 5 years ;-)
Perhaps this is one of the bigger differences... I've had trouble
convincing people that Wikipedia is all that useful, because they just
think "well, I could google for this", and chances are they'd get
something back, maybe even something good. Now obviously we're better
than just googling for an answer, and every day we're getting even
better, but many English-speaking people are used to being able to
find answers to most of their questions online anyway through some
searching, and there is indeed a lot of stuff already out there, so it
takes some more convincing to show them that Wikipedia really *is*
different (and better) than what's already there.
What convinces them is when Googling produces a Wikipedia article. :-P
That happens more and more frequently.
Ec