Hoi,
You might have waved a red rag, time to hoist the pirate flag... What
nonsense. Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's biggest project and indeed
it gets most of the attention and most of the tender loving care. HOWEVER,
there are other projects that are most definitely not encyclopaedic and that
are massively important, relevant even succesful. Not just Commons, but also
projects like Wiktionary, Wikinews...
These projects are successful despite the lack of focussed attention given
to Wikipedia. This will be partially remedied with the Commons project.
Similar projects could and should be considered for the other projects. The
best argument I have heard so far why this is not done is that the WMF lacks
the resources to do this and do this well at this time.
It has been argued in the past that projects like Wiktionary would do better
outside the WMF. This might be true, personally I am not sure.
Thanks,,
GerardM
2009/12/1 stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com>
Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't see how that would be an issue.
Notability is not a foundation
policy, it's a community guideline that was enacted by editors of the
English Wikipedia. Other projects within the WMF family would not
necessarily be subject to the same standards, in the same way that the
Spanish Wikipedia does not allow fair use images while the English
Wikipedia
does.
This is an excellent point that gets to the heart of the divergence
problems between Wikipedia's and Wikimedia's respective purposes. The
difference though is that Wikimedia serves Wikipedia - not the other
way around. Wikipedia's success itself came largely from being able to
confine its scope and its mission toward dealing with issues of
substance and not so much ideas about fluff - popular as that fluff
may be.
But I agree that Wikimedia is not so encumbered with principles as
Wikipedia, and thus it can take on projects that deal with
non-encyclopedic content. (In fact this unencumberance allows for some
degree of allowance for non-encyclopedic content on even Wikipedia -
see Commons for example). You have to understand the objection here
though - which is that we inevitably find that Wikipedia will conflict
with any other Wikimedia projects if their priorities are too
different.
Wikipedia is more than just Wikimedia's flagship project, and its
encyclopedic and journalistic principles have a priority that far
exceeds its own "wiki."
-Stevertigo
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