On 6 February 2013 14:04, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think you are all dancing around the real subject.
Is wikipedia meant to help people have access to
knowledge, to apportion access to knowledge, or
to be a gate-keeper on which knowledge and at
which rates do people have access to it?
Gate-keeping is one of a trio of concepts that are still interesting
to discuss, along with conflict of interest, and bias (as in systemic
bias). "Still interesting" as neither purely involving content policy,
nor purely about community interactions, but having both snarled up
together.
Anyway Wikipedia is meant to help people have access to knowledge, per
the mission, and to do gatekeeping per WP:NOT.
Charles