[Foundation-l] Back to basics @ Danny

[James Hare]

Walter,

I am not Danny, but since mailing list posts are public record anyway, go
ahead.

On 1/2/07, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
>
> Danny do I have your permission to repost this mail in the Dutch
> villagepump?
>
> Waerth
>
> >With all the commotion, with the departures over the sitenotice, with the
> >infighting on various projects (and between various projects), with the
> bitter
> >debates over image policy, I thought it may be a good idea to go back to
> the
> >very root of all the Wikimedia projects. It is a simple statement, but
> what
> >it says--and doesn't say--summarized the very essence of what we
> are  doing.
> >
> >"Imagine a world in which every single human being can  freely share in
> the
> >sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
> >
> >Perhaps this should be the yardstick with which we make our
> decisions.  It is
> >inclusive ("every single human being") and devoted to free content ("can
> >freely share"), and it defines the parameters of our content ("the sum of
> all
> >human knowledge."). It recognizes that this project is still in the
> works: we
> >have not finished what we set out to do ("Imagine a world ...")
> >
> >That's our commitment.
> >
> >As for what it doesn't say:
> >It does not say, "Imagine an advertising-free world."
> >It does not say "where every single person who speaks a English or a
> >European language ..."
> >It does not say "share freely unless the unfree content is better."
> >It does not say "free knowledge and links to where to find out  more/buy
> it."
> >It does not say "That's what we did."
> >
> >Let's try and refocus the discussions on what our goals are and how we
> can
> >best achieve them. Let's use this as our yardstick.
> >
> >Danny
> >
> >
> >
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