On 13 Dec 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
There will
also always be a great many people who will not trust anything on
a wiki.
And we should confirm this irrational fear by pointing them to a separate
website? This would be very unfair. We should give people an opportunity
to learn. Wikipedia's success is based on overcoming these kinds of fears.
I think you're missing an important point, that if we don't
create/distribute a stable version it will only be a matter of time before
someone else does. And that someone else might not care about encouraging
people to go to wikipedia.
Imran
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