On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2010/11/12 John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Providing help to an organisation that can be considered part of the
Wikimedia movement makes sense. The issue with Citizendium is that they
explicitly distance themselves from many of the basic corner stones of what
has made Wikipedia what it is.
Which cornerstone is that?
I think the most serious problem with them is that they do not follow
NPOV. Instead they follow a kind of biased-sympathetic-expert-POV.
Is that systematic, symptomatic or merely evidenced in a small set of articles?
I've seen lots of people point out specific problems with their
content, but we have many problem articles too.
Anyway, I think it is worth helping Citzendium, but in
a way to leave
their editorial policy freedom and clearly state, that they are not
going to be Wikimedia project, but they are a different approach,
interesting but not in line with some of our basic values such as
"anyone can edit on equal base" and "NPOV".
I agree with everything except whether or not they are in line with
our basic values. They may not align with Wikipedia's values, but as
a separate project they dont need to be; instead they need to fit
within the core values that all our projects have in common.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Values
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values
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John Vandenberg