On 8 April 2011 01:03, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> wrote: > You should be careful what you wish for. It's not hard to make a > 'viable competitor' encyclopedia that would be so corrupt and > inaccurate it would make the Fox News network... look like a news > network. And if it was glossy and facile enough, plenty of people > would probably be dumb enough to use it.
One thing that should probably be considered is that from the competing POV wikipedia does 2 things. 1)It provides information to people on general interest topics (for broad values of general interest) 2)It provides a plece for people to write articles on general interest topics. We've received both competition and attempts at competition in both cases In case 1 competition comes from Britannica and the million and one aps for viewing wikipedia on your phone. In case 2 competition attempts include knol, citizendium and more successfully hoodong -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
