Anthony wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:50 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dead tree technology. Wikipedia based encyclopedias in the most widely >> used languages. >> >> Select the 40K most important articles (that will be fun). >> > Do you really think the 40K most important Wikipedia articles are more > useful than a set of high school textbooks? > > Wikipedia is sometimes good for getting answers to specific questions, or as > a place to find out what you don't know so you can then check other > resources to learn it. But it can't replace a good textbook for learning > something from scratch. Really, no encyclopedia can.
Assuming that I were somewhere in rural Africa, and perfectly functioning hardware with Wikipedia software loaded in dropped in front of me from the sky like a magic Coke bottle from the Gods, how much would I then be able to use that gift to get a better yield from my little patch of poor farm-land? Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
