[Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

Thu May 6 18:56:40 UTC 2010

On 6 May 2010 19:00, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:40 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Doubtful. Why a few turn based and real time strategy have
>> historically spread information MMORPGs have not. Freeciv might be a
>> better target if you want to try that.
>
> The point is that this is an engine for virtual reality, while it is
> MMORPG, too. And unlike Second Life, the platform is free software
> which anyone would be able to install. Integrating Wikimedia projects
> into this framework should be priority as in five to ten years, this
> will be the most dominant form of using Internet.

No it won't be. The limited impact of second life and the like shows
that attempts at VR worlds are sub optimal ways of accessing web
materials for most people. It's a lot quicker to type wikipedia.org or
type wiki into google than it is to work out where in the VR world you
have to walk to to find the library. Much the same can be shown with
microsoft bob.

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geni