[Foundation-l] Collecting or spreading information (was: Wikipedia is not the karma sutra)

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/14 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:
> Here we have an interesting discussion topic. So what /is/ the main focus of
> Wikimedia? Is it about collecting together free knowledge, or is it about
> spreading it?

I think it is clear that we need to do both. You can't spread
information you don't have and there is no point collecting
information if nobody uses it. I'm not convinced these two goals are
in any real conflict.