[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

[Ting Chen]

Hello all,

the following sentence from me is surely a very stupid sentense. I 
apology for it. And thanks for everyone, especially Aphaia and SJ for 
pointing this out to me.

Ting

Ting Chen wrote:
> Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational 
> value. They gain their educational value in the way that they provide 
> repositories for the other WMF projects. Wikisource is the library of 
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikispecies. 
> The volumes collected in it should be judged with the same principle as 
> the media files in Commons.
>
> Ting
>
> Victor Vasiliev wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Having said that, the Wikimedia projects are intended to be educational
>>> in nature, and there is no place in the projects for material that has
>>> no educational or informational value.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I'd like to point out that we already have a project where most
>> information has no educational value. It's called Wikisource and
>> materials there are primarily of artistic value, not educational or
>> information one. Since I basically support the idea that one of
>> Wikimedia Commons aims is to collect as much notable works of art as
>> possible, I view it as a Wikisource for visual arts and music.
>>
>> Should we expect Wikisource to be cleaned up as well? Does Foundation
>> feel need to host such highly disputed works as [1] or [2]?
>>
>> --vvv
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover
>> [2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill:_Memoirs_of_a_Woman_of_Pleasure
>>
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