On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]>wrote:
> p.s. Personally, discussions of "offline" here and everywhere (say, > accessibility of educational materials) are absurdly myopic. > Consideration of offline use is about as relevant now as consideration > of horse stables in urban planning 100 years ago. Substitute "print" for "offline" and I think the market is fairly limited (maybe I'm wrong, though, does anyone from the German Wikimedia know how many copies of "The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia" have sold?). But there are plenty of uses for an "offline" encyclopedia - CD/DVD and iPod Touch come to mind immediately. I can't say I understand your horse stable planning analogy, but the Wikipedia we write today will surely be useless 100 years from now except for archaeological-type purposes, just like the Britannica from 100 years ago is today. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
