On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 6/1/2011 2:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
"Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and educational in nature."
So Board said that Wikinews is out of scope. Its nature is informational, not educational.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what distinction you're trying to make. In this context, those look like synonyms to me.
If so, I am fine with it. What do Board members mean with that?
Hi Milos,
We meant what is stated there: that Wikimedia project content should be at a minimum both free and educational in nature. (In general, you can assume that language in resolutions like this is intentional). However, you can also safely assume that the Board did not specifically discuss the scope of Wikinews when writing this resolution; we were focused on the topic at hand. I personally think there is a very valid argument to be made that Wikinews, like most news sources and like the rest of our projects, is educational (as well as possessing other qualities, such as the more general quality of being informative, which also arguably applies to all of our projects).
If people want to discuss these subtleties of language (or the scope of wikinews) in depth however, a separate thread might be best.
-- phoebe