On 30/03/07, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it's time to clarify briefly what the ultimate goal of the project "Wikipedia" is:
A. To write a encyclopedia (with the labels associates such as "quality", "accuracy" and "neutrality" B. To have a nice little community thing, where we have endless votes and discussions about the (inclusion of the) messed-up divorce of John Doe, biologist.
Wikipedia doesn't have constitutional or fundamental goals. We have certain goals which have primacy over others, but none can be described (or rejected) as our ultimate goal.
It seems that Wikipedia's worth arises from its practical use (eventualistically), not from what we initially determined Wikipedia to be (prescriptively). That is, that our goals can be described based upon pragmatic use of Wikipedia presently, not theoretical projections into the future.