WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
On 7/19/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
en.wikipedia is utterly failing at executing the Foundation's mission, and
it is THE flagship project.
This is unwarranted hyperbole. If we're utterly failing, why is Wikipedia a top-10 website that's rapidly gaining cachet as the first place to look for general information, why is Britannica in terror of us, and (specifically on the "free" front) why is the Wikipedia database being used by literally hundreds of mirrors?
Our mission says nothing about striving to become a top 10 website.
Please have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mission
developing content under a free content licence does not require that the material be free before we use it. It is more important that we participate in making it free.
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