Making people feel good is ultimately the best reason for archiving the data - I would agree. And that is synergistic with what I think is the best strategy for long term archiving, which is giving a complete copy to every single person in the world. If we were to invest in a class of technologies it would have to be those that allow for widespread dissemination. A working dump process is the logical next step..:)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > Yeah, I'm still going to say the entire idea is ridiculous. > > I wouldn't go quite that far. The idea of doing it (or having done it) > makes people feel good, due to the collective sci-fi-like fantasy > implicitly promulgated by the project itself -- a future world of > poverty and decay, saved by the serendipitous discovery of a > time-capsule sent from the past. It's a spectacle, a stunt, and it has > PR value. > > I certainly don't begrudge the Long Now Foundation for having done > this with the Rosetta Project, since their primary goal is to > encourage long-term thinking, and expensive stunts are obviously a key > part of that. > > But Wikimedia's goals are somewhat different, and we could probably > find some stunts which are more relevant to our mission. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l