On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/5/1 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
> I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
> knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years?
Yes. Considering the stakes and our capacity for history, this seems
to me appropriate and possible.
It is impossible to predict what humanity will be like in 300 years,
if it even still exists, so it is completely impossible to predict
what Wikimedia will be like or what challenges it will need to face.
Can we perhaps split the difference between you two and say: 30 years?
There are all sorts of issues that arise on this time span that are
also useful to consider on much shorter and much longer scales.
Besides, this is a (slightly long) generation, which makes a useful
human-scaled measure to think in. I really want my kids, at some
point, to be able to say in exasperation, "Mom, this isn't *your*
Wikipedia anymore!" Or better yet: "Grandma, we are sick and tired of
hearing how you had to write your own markup, both ways in the snow!
We edit through the power of our minds now, OK?! Sheesh!"
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