[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Thu Sep 4 10:02:40 UTC 2008


Ting Chen wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
>> Ting Chen wrote:
>> Surely a pedagogical study of Classical Chinese is more relevant to our
>> educational mission than Wikiquote's enormous sitcom dialogue collection,
>> or Wikipedia's in-universe sci-fi/fantasy character studies.
>>
>> "No original research" should be considered a project policy, not a
>> Foundation policy. Original research is an immensely valuable activity,
>> and Wikimedia should not be opposed to it on principle.
>>   
> In that case I believe it is better to do it as a Wikiversity or 
> Wikibooks project, and not as a Wikipedia project.

Sounds like a reasonable compromise. Have the Board approve it and I'll
move the existing extinct languages and create several more.

-- Tim Starling




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