On 20/04/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Whoops, what's this? Wikipedia was constructed to write an encyclopedia. It's most definitely not "built purely for the free flow of information" or we wouldn't be deleting stuff off of it on a regular basis.
I didn't say "the free flow of all information, no matter how crufty" :) Seriously though, the very fact we use the GFDL, allow unlimited free downloads of our content for third parties, that the histories of articles are readily available etc, all point to the fact that Wikipedia is geared towards free distribution of its content. As far as I am aware, the Wikipedia project has no goals other than creating good content, and disseminating it as widely as possible.
This is totally different to, say, a government ministry, or a corporation, both of which maintain much tighter controls on information flow, because it's contrary to their missions.
Hopefully that makes what I said a bit clearer?
Steve