[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Wed Dec 5 21:44:46 UTC 2007
Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Trying to restrict the kind of opinion expressed could be
> problematic. For example, Wikisource could find it useful and
> educational to host controversial historic political texts,
> provided they are old and out-of-copyright, the scanned images of
> which would then be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This could
> include caricatures similar to those of Sharon, but a hundred
> years older. Wikisource can never be NPOV regarding opinion in
> the individual text, but must be true to the text as it was
> printed.
Exactly, and this has certainly come up in relation to the hosting by
Wikisource of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Ec
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