[WikiEN-l] Re: Ads on Wikipedia?

Mon Jan 2 11:01:23 UTC 2006

Rob wrote:
> On 1/1/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I thought the goal was to build an
>>encyclopaedia - so does it matter how many people are reading it?
> 
> 
> 
> What's the point of an encyclopedia that no one uses?
> 
> We're not constructing a Platonic ideal of an encyclopedia, we're building
> something that people use around the world every day.  I find that an
> essential component of what we're doing here and we really should be doing
> things with that in mind.

True, but is the goal for the content only to be used on the internet 
through our website.

Or is that goal for the content to spread, be used, reused, through 
thousands of supports (cd, dvd, newspaper, other websites, books...) ?

ant