On 0, quiddity <blanketfort(a)gmail.com> scribbled:
I've read through these 2 threads again, and I
think Durin's initial
post (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077358.html)
and George Herbert's reply
(
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077966.html)
are excellent summations of the issue.
(I'm a reductionist by nature, so, to synopsize even further...)
This seems to be a fundamental disagreement between 2 philosophies:
*The "open-content-first" folks (idealists), and the immediatists
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Immediatism)
and
*The "encyclopedia-first" folks (utilitarians?), and the eventualists
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism)
Does that sound about right?
Quiddity
Not quite. There are some independent axes I think here; for example,
'encyclopedia-first'/'free-content-first' is independent of
eventualism/immediatism since you can construct an eventualist argument for both getting
rid of and keeping free content (ex. "There's no need to delete that fair use
photo of the subject; I'm sure someone will come along eventually with a Free picture
we can replace it with.")
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