Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Imagine a poor country with a non-democratic government. They want to educate their people, but they are unwilling to tolerate some small number of ideas. Should we make it DIFFICULT or EASY for them to select a subset of articles for an Encyclopedia of Lessitania?
The GFDL makes it perfectly legal for anyone to do whatever they want with all or part of the articles (besides take them proprietary). So the government of Lessitania is free to distribute Wikipedia with all the articles that speak critically of their leaders removed or sanitized. That doesn't mean that the Wikimedia Foundation ought to set up a special version of the encyclopedia where we ourselves cull and censor the articles to cater to the whims of the government of Lessitania. Indeed, I would oppose hosting such a project on our servers, since "satisfying the political concerns of the government of Lessitania" isn't part of our mission.
-Mark