[WikiEN-l] What is the fundamental goal of the project?

[Ray Saintonge]

Omegatron wrote:

>* free
>* (create an) encyclopedia
>* of the highest possible quality
>* (distribute) to every single person on the planet
>* in their own language
>
>In fact, these goals occasionally conflict.  For instance, machine
>translations are considered "worse than nothing" because of their poor
>quality, so it would seem that "of the highest possible quality" is
>more important than "in their own language".
>
No conflict at all.  What is produced by machine translations is often 
not in anybody's own language. :-)

Ec