[Web4lib] Wikipedia WAS: Failed or transitory technologies

[Mike Taylor]

K.G. Schneider writes:
 > Hmmm... Wikipedia has a huge content base. I wonder if Google will
 > fork it to get things going.

It hardly can, since Google's Wikipedia-alike seems to have as its
selling point that the authorship of all its articles is known,
acknowledged and (implicitly) appealed to as an authority.

Anyway, I don't see how they can possibly expect this to fly.  The
whole point of Wikipedia is that there is exactly one of it, and it's
already hugely surpassed any conventional encyclopedia in terms of
utility (note that I did NOT say reliability, but that is far from the
only issue that contributes to utility).

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