[Foundation-l] Back to basics @ Danny
Walter van Kalken
walter at vankalken.net
Tue Jan 2 19:50:28 UTC 2007
Danny do I have your permission to repost this mail in the Dutch
villagepump?
Waerth
>With all the commotion, with the departures over the sitenotice, with the
>infighting on various projects (and between various projects), with the bitter
>debates over image policy, I thought it may be a good idea to go back to the
>very root of all the Wikimedia projects. It is a simple statement, but what
>it says--and doesn't say--summarized the very essence of what we are doing.
>
>"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
>sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
>
>Perhaps this should be the yardstick with which we make our decisions. It is
>inclusive ("every single human being") and devoted to free content ("can
>freely share"), and it defines the parameters of our content ("the sum of all
>human knowledge."). It recognizes that this project is still in the works: we
>have not finished what we set out to do ("Imagine a world ...")
>
>That's our commitment.
>
>As for what it doesn't say:
>It does not say, "Imagine an advertising-free world."
>It does not say "where every single person who speaks a English or a
>European language ..."
>It does not say "share freely unless the unfree content is better."
>It does not say "free knowledge and links to where to find out more/buy it."
>It does not say "That's what we did."
>
>Let's try and refocus the discussions on what our goals are and how we can
>best achieve them. Let's use this as our yardstick.
>
>Danny
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