[WikiEN-l] Chicago situation resolved.

[Yonatan Horan]

Maybe but we're sliding over to a philosophical discussion... the bottom
line is that saying something like saving a life is disrupting our goal of
building an encyclopedia is plain stupid and shows someone might have become
too immersed in the goal of building an encyclopedia to see that there are
things that are perhaps even more important than wikipedia.

On 4/7/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/7/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we saved one person's life, at least to me, that's worth more than
> > writing a thousand featured articles. Things like this put things like
> > "building an encyclopedia" into perspective....
> >
>
> Not so much. Information is power. Power includes the power to kill.
>
> Words and images can result in deaths. See [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad
> cartoons controversy]]. So can almost any form of information
>
> If wikipedia continues at it's current level of popularity it is
> likely that something in it will eventually indirectly result in
> deaths (if it hasn't already). At best we can hope that any deaths
> will be the result of truths rather than lies.
>
> --
> geni
>
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