Evan Prodromou wrote:
MS> I would interpret this as saying that Wikipedia content should MS> be independent of, and normally not discuss, internal MS> Wikipedia/Wikimedia politics and management issues. The MS> primary forum for that discussion should be the mailing lists.
Wha...? Not the Wikipedia: namespace or meta.w.o? I guess I need to read up some more.
~ESP
Well, I was referring to whether regular Wikipedia articles should discuss internal issues, not to the Wikipedia: namespace or the Meta site. I could have included those with the mailing lists to be more complete. But part of my point was that I don't believe that this principle will always apply. If (when) Wikipedia reaches a certain point, some internal issues may have to be discussed in the encyclopedia portion because they're significant enough. Just the same way that the New York Times had to report about itself in the Jayson Blair fiasco. It's a tough judgment to make, and sometimes nearly impossible to do NPOV, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist either.
--Michael Snow
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