On 7/21/07, quiddity blanketfort@gmail.com wrote:
I've read through these 2 threads again, and I think Durin's initial post (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077358.html) and George Herbert's reply (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077966.html) are excellent summations of the issue.
(I'm a reductionist by nature, so, to synopsize even further...) This seems to be a fundamental disagreement between 2 philosophies: *The "open-content-first" folks (idealists), and the immediatists (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Immediatism) and *The "encyclopedia-first" folks (utilitarians?), and the eventualists (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism)
Does that sound about right?
Sadly not quite.
There are eventualists who want us to be *eventually* strictly open content, and eventualists who don't really care as long as we are eventually a quality encyclopaedia, under what ever IP Regime.
There are also people who are in an unsconcionable hurry to make sure nothing that is of low quality *at the moment* remain on wikipedia, but who don't really register IP issues on their radar.
I don't really don't think you can make a case for such alignments. Wikiphilosophical attitudes are very much pick and choose. You won't be able to make "two parties" of wikipedians no matter how hard you try to massage the statistics.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]