Robert Scott Horning wrote:
As far as sending a letter to the Vatican, I
think it would be a very
good idea, but try to really do a good job of explaining the goals of
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and point out how we are trying
to make faithful reproductions of these documents and to try and keep
them in context as well. In addition, point out that by having this
documentation available on Wikisource that we are making this content
available to people in not just wealthy countries, but some of the
poorer countries of the world including to people who don't necessarily
even have internet access and through multiple languages. There are
many other points I'm sure you could come up with to really hit the
point home, and I would recommend that you get some Roman Catholics,
preferably some Catholic clergy who are also active Wikimedians (there
must be a few somewhere) to help draft the letter. The purpose here is
to try to use language styles that fits within the heirarchical culture
of the Church rather than catch phrases common to Wikimedians.
Essjay (on English-language Wikipedia) isn't clergy, but he is a
professor of theology with a speciality in Catholicism. He's probably a
great person to get in touch with:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay
OK. I will contact him - but I guess if it make sence to send a letter
to the Vatican it should be done officialy by Foundation?
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Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz