On 3/1/06, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I certainly hope it's our goal. I'm not a
huge fan of consumerism or
elitism, which follow from a goal of not including everyone in the
potential editorship pool.
I thought the goal, as Jimbo put it, was about putting encyclopaedias
in the hands of poor African communities. Are we then expecting them
to log onto
wikipedia.org to become editors? Similarly, most people
see the publication of wikipedia in paper format in the next year or
two as an appealing goal - do we expect purchasers of this version to
come back here and start working away?
It might be nice if they did, to "counter systemic bias", but it's not
at all realistic to expect that, is it?
Note what I say above about expectations versus goals. I certainly
would think that having poor African communities editing Wikipedia
would be a goal of the project.