Mathias Schindler 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 guess everyone wants to keel those three projects.
Mathias
I think I see your point. However, it seems to me that quoting a non-neutral statement is still "neutral" in the context of a collection of quotations. The same applies to source documents. Thus, both Wikiquote and Wikisource would be "neutral educational content", so long as there was not systematic bias (and remember that they are always works in progress).
Similarly, a particular image, video, etc. can be non-neutral, but an open collection of them would still be neutral, so long as there is not systematic bias.
Certainly, we don't want any of those projects to be collectively biased. If we only kept quotations that supported one position, and eliminated those that did not support that position, it would be a "bad thing", and would go against our mission, right? Thus, I do think we want to keep the concept of "neutral" in our mission statement.
-Rich