[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

Yann Forget yannfo at gmail.com
Sat May 8 14:58:42 UTC 2010


Hi,

2010/5/8 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
> Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational
> value. They gain their educational value in the way that they provide
> repositories for the other WMF projects. Wikisource is the library of
> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikispecies.
> The volumes collected in it should be judged with the same principle as
> the media files in Commons.

I beg to disagree about the educational value of WS and Commons. I
think that historical documents, wheiher they are texts, images,
videos or sounds, have an educational value in themselves, whatever
happens on other projects.

> Ting

Regards,

Yann




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