[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikimedia Foundation's help to the projects

[Ray Saintonge]

Birgitte SB wrote:

>I don't believe you understand how useful it would be
>to just have some one say "That particular case is
>unknown.  The most similar case to this is Foobar."  
>Even if there were a table of questions that people
>have asked in the past with yes/no/unknown and no
>futher advice would be extremely helpful.  I think it
>a false expectation of yours that we are expecting
>clearcut answers.  Really we have been mucking through
>copyright questions as best we can for some time; we
>are all well aware there are often not answers only
>arguments.  Just being able to eliminate some
>arguments as invalid would be very helpful.
>
We've been "mucking through" since day one.  Your proposal makes sense 
until one examines the disciplined way in which Wikipedians deal with 
such things.  High marks for optimism. ;-)

Ec