On 14 October 2011 21:10, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > I love Cracked. It's Wikipedia with dick jokes. > > http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burning-period-in-history_p2.html > > To be ha ha only serious for a moment, this touches on why we all > bother doing this.
Doubtful. Heck to some extent its probably our fault. Why bother holding books on say warships when Wikipedia already provides an unreasonable amount of information about them. So out go the old warship annuals. Except they don't even bother to remove them from the catalog (me bitter?) There is relatively little destruction of actual information going on. As well as a lot of the stuff being fiction the non-fiction stuff is mostly one of multiple copies. The problem is it does cause is that the information is increasingly locked up. Paper archives have for the last decade or so one of the loopholes in payways. With the removal of such archives the paywalls become more controlling. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
