2006/1/25, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net:
Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
2006/1/25, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org:
Robert Scott Horning wrote:
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
This doesn't have to be an "official" contact. Simply write the letter as a group of interested Wikimedia users who are interested in adding original content that comes from official Vatican sources. That just keeps the legal hassles of writing a formal letter representing the foundation and lets the Vatican know that this is a volunteer project as well.
Well - I though we have legal department of Wikimedia Foundation for some reasons... What should we do if the answer from Vatican is "no" ?
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html