On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:27:09 -0700 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Since WMF is doing a strategy update (with which I'm not involved, but hope that the community can influence), I'm wondering what others thoughts are on Wikipedia's strategic opportunities and threats.
What do others think about how Wikipedia's community health can transform from threatened to thriving?
Pine
Here's a down home truth: People ARE entitled to their own facts, including those people who prefer our version. Self-conconsious recognition of this truth may be helpful in understanding and planning. We need to be aware of the complexes which have a need to maintain a version of reality which differs from that Wikipedia, by operation of its policies, produces. Such a viewpoint takes the surprise out of such things making them more an exercise in diplomacy than of moral outrage. In terms of knowledge diplomacy we occupy the role played by Switzerland in political diplomacy, weak but protected.
Fred