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From: "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
Wikipedia does appear to have fallen into its own folk
ontology: an
answer to the question "what is knowledge?" that is simple and obvious
enough for smart high school students. And I'm not meaning to
denigrate smart high school students - but they haven't even had four
years of wrangling with the issue of "how do we know what we know?" at
undergraduate level.
David could you translate this section here please. Are you saying that the
question of what 'knowledge' that the WMF seeks to bring is a difficult
question? Also, be careful not to confuse the content of what is to be
known with the medium through which it is acquired. For example if I
explain x in a very simple way that anyone can understand, and if I explain
x using very technical way, the knowledge x is the same in both cases. It's
just that in one case it has explained in an easier way. We aren't talking
about different knowledge here.