On 5/1/07, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there. When reading http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission/Unstable&oldid=52124..., I ask myself if this Mission Statement covers Wikisource, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons, as they may lack neutrality (with a good reason). In a new version, this has already been fixed, however, the "official" version appears to be the neutral one (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Mission_and_Vision_statement).
I do not see why Commons, Wikiquote, and Wikisource cannot be neutral repositories. There are just different ways in which neutrality is implemented there, e.g., the metadata, the arrangement, the selection, and so forth. Moreover, all these projects are embedded (through sister project links) into the overall educational context of the Wikimedia universe.
I would, in fact, argue that neutrality in these projects is just as essential as in any other, so I cannot support the removal of "neutral", but we might think about other ways to phrase this requirement to be more generic ("to collect and develop .. in a neutral fashion"?) .