[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

Sun May 31 12:41:18 UTC 2009

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:50 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dead tree technology. Wikipedia based encyclopedias in the most widely
> used languages.
>
> Select the 40K most important articles (that will be fun).

Do you really think the 40K most important Wikipedia articles are more
useful than a set of high school textbooks?

Wikipedia is sometimes good for getting answers to specific questions, or as
a place to find out what you don't know so you can then check other
resources to learn it.  But it can't replace a good textbook for learning
something from scratch.  Really, no encyclopedia can.