On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You'll love this blog entry: > > http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/13/cpedia-and-its-detractors > He's not too far off the mark with some of his comments in that blog; it's an unfortunate side effect of the style of communication the Internet encourages that experimentation is often subject to vitriol and mocking instead of thoughtful criticism. Personally, I think the potential constituents for online sources of information only benefit from this type of work. This first public draft of a computer generated encyclopedia is deeply flawed, but it has some design elements we could really learn from -- and even its initial failure has lessons for people interested in the wide dissemination of knowledge. Nathan _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
