2006/1/25, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org:
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: --> 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?
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html