[WikiEN-l] Reasons I care less about Wikipedia than I used to, No. 43

[James Farrar]

2009/1/19 Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:29 AM, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Which brings up the question "What is Wikipedia?". Is meta-content
>> like User: space and Wikipedia: space actually part of Wikipedia?
>
> A question I thought of after reading
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angr this]. Is Wikipedia a free
> (libre) encyclopedia or a free (beer) encyclopedia that primarily uses
> a free (libre) license?

I've asked that question before and always got fobbed off. Some people
seem to think that they can pursue "a free encyclopaedia" with no
possible conflict between the freeness of the project and the quality
of the project as an encyclopaedia.