Walter,
I am not Danny, but since mailing list posts are public record anyway, go
ahead.
On 1/2/07, Walter van Kalken <walter(a)vankalken.net> wrote:
Danny do I have your permission to repost this mail in the Dutch
villagepump?
Waerth
With all the commotion, with the departures over
the sitenotice, with the
infighting on various projects (and between various projects), with the
bitter
debates over image policy, I thought it may be a
good idea to go back to
the
very root of all the Wikimedia projects. It is a
simple statement, but
what
it says--and doesn't say--summarized the very
essence of what we
are doing.
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the
sum of all knowledge. That's our
commitment."
Perhaps this should be the yardstick with which we make our
decisions. It is
inclusive ("every single human being")
and devoted to free content ("can
freely share"), and it defines the parameters of our content ("the sum of
all
human knowledge."). It recognizes that this
project is still in the
works: we
have not finished what we set out to do
("Imagine a world ...")
That's our commitment.
As for what it doesn't say:
It does not say, "Imagine an advertising-free world."
It does not say "where every single person who speaks a English or a
European language ..."
It does not say "share freely unless the unfree content is better."
It does not say "free knowledge and links to where to find out more/buy
it."
It does not say "That's what we
did."
Let's try and refocus the discussions on what our goals are and how we
can
best achieve them. Let's use this as our
yardstick.
Danny
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