[Inquiry] Breakpoint 3. Becoming a Resource that Researchers Actually Use

[Jon Awbrey]

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On 3rd thought ...

One of the places where Wikipedia is falling down more miserably
with every passing day is in failing to realize that the best way
to get professional journalists, reseachers, scholars, and writers
to devote a lot of their discretionary labor to a resource for free
is to make that into a resource that these sorts of knowledge workers
really care about, on account of the fact that it feathers in with their
normal modes of working, and because it is a resource that they would not
merely touch with a ten-foot pole but actually use in their day jobs at the
Daily Planet.  Of course, you all know what has happened at Wikipedia instead.

So let's watch out for that.

Jon Awbrey

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