On 19 Sep 2006, at 18:43, David Alexander Russell wrote:
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Stephen Streater wrote:
Doesn't this contradict Wikipedia's goal of containing all human knowledge?
Wikipedia has never pretended to aim to contain all human knowledge regardless of copyright law - after all, there is an awful lot of 'knowledge' out there that Wikipedia could copy illegally (e.g. the entire contents of Encarta, for example). Wikipedia's aims can't overrule copyright law.
True. But by insisting that Wikipedia be self-contained, there is knowledge that Wikipedia has chosen to exclude, even though links to it can be released freely.