Comments on: Wikipedia on a dvd! Good or Bad?

By: reviewsaurus

reviewsaurus — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:50:33 +0000

Well, Rishi Wikipedia is really not in a need of advertising. They already get enough traffic. This is one of the monetization source. Remember, that they dont display any ads and thus the amount of traffic is more than enough for them. They only depend on donation and so, they need something to keep them alive.

This DVD will give them chance to earn money and that will help them in keeping them alive and kicking :)

By: Rishi

Rishi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:55:47 +0000

Hmm… for 14$ its OK. Now in my sight, this is an advertising technique, I myself once distributed some floppies among my friends which have matters on having a website in short and have a text For more, log onto StudentsPlace.net . This got me many visitors. So anyone who doesn’t use Wikipedia a lot [ not me, I'ma wiki-ffreak ] will use this disc and will get attracted to use it. ;)

By: Narinder Sahota

Narinder Sahota — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:16:10 +0000

I don’t believe its a good deal offered by Wikipedia. The group of people those who need this have Internet and those who don’t hardy care about. So why to pay when you have it all online and that too updated stuff.

In my opinion Wikipedia should have launched it as a promotional product and should have offered the disk for free with popular IT magazines. If not the full version then at least a shorter version. Anyhow I am not the one going to buy it at this price but yes better deals are always welcome.

By: Aish Wary Blogs » Wikipedia on a dvd! Good or Bad?

Aish Wary Blogs » Wikipedia on a dvd! Good or Bad? — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:07:11 +0000

[...] redchaos wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJPG Wikimedia foundation and Linterweb have together announced the first version of Wikipedia on a DVD. This DVD will contain handpicked article (almost 2000 articles) and is going to cost around $ 14.00. At this point of time, … [...]

By: Gautam Agarwal

Gautam Agarwal — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:53:30 +0000

This offer doesn’t sounds good considering the fact that in developed countries internet is quite easily available and has a large penetration. It doesn’t makes sense to spend 14$ for something which is just a fraction of what is available online. Taking the case of countries like India, China nobody is gonna buy this because one would rather log on to internet. The case would have been much different if suppose the number of articles were more say something around 100k or so which will form the major chunk of database of wikipedia. As in that case one could think of buying of such a dvd as it will be like having a encyclopedia on the go. Beside all this one should not forget what wikipedia is known for making good and relevant information free online. It was becoming more of a standard of looking up something on the web. So, even if people at wikipedia wanted to make it a commercial success they should have given the buyer a better deal.