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[Grahame Gould]

Nice dream but doesn't sound practical or possible to me.  But I'm sure
the two can learn from each other.  And I'm not implying that Wikipedia
and Wikia are one entity, merely that the underlying ethics are similar.

And there I see one of the major problems.  The underlying ethic of
Google and Wiki* are quite different, it seems to me.  However, as I
said, I'm sure there is potential for the two to learn from each other.

Grahame Gould
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	Google is successful because it finds the most popular pages,
which it does by algorithmic analysis which calculates mass appeal.
	
	Wikipedia is successful because it creates popular pages, which
it does by a social process which selects for mass appeal.

	If someone could effectively mate these two systems (kind of a
genetic hybrid between two web data-mining behemoths), the result would
likely be very interesting, and also extremely profitable.

	It's not clear it can be done, but I'd say there's a good
argument (both abstractly, and to potential funders) that it's worth a
try.

--
Seth Finkelstein  <snip>