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Monday, June 19, 2006

Te Ara- Money could have been better spent

NicW has just blogged about Te Ara, The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

I personally think the $12 million would have been better spent encouraging/hiring content authors to work on the NZ entries in Wikipedia.

I'm not normally an Open Source kinda guy... but this is an obvious example of where aligning some national $$$ with an *open sourcish* kinda project would have been a good idea.

Human Aggregation | Taxpayer Ripoffs|Monday, June 19, 2006 9:03:07 PM UTC|Comments [4]|

Monday, June 19, 2006 9:50:14 PM UTC

Ouch! Is that really how much was spent? Hmm yeah Wikipedia is certainly would have been a "tax friendly" option.

Chan

Monday, June 19, 2006 10:29:27 PM UTC

For a little over $1M PER YEAR I doubt you'd end up with something of that level of quality (from what I can see, anyway)

The $12M is from 2002 to 2011. It's not all spent. Personally, I dont think I'd put anything into Wikipedia, especially with the recent "issues".

Nic Wise

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:06:17 AM UTC

That makes sense then, It is an impressive site though and as Nic points out the quality is what you pay for. Under the hood it's Microsoft CMS and SharePoint. :-)

Chan

Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15:21 AM UTC

What do you mean with recent issues? I don't know anything about any issue. Can you clear me? Thanks.

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