[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

[Aphaia]

Thanks for your prompt response, Ting. Fine to see we come to
agreement so quickly :)

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> the following sentence from me is surely a very stupid sentense. I
> apology for it. And thanks for everyone, especially Aphaia and SJ for
> pointing this out to me.
>
> Ting
>
> Ting Chen wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Ting
>>
>> Victor Vasiliev wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Having said that, the Wikimedia projects are intended to be educational
>>>> in nature, and there is no place in the projects for material that has
>>>> no educational or informational value.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'd like to point out that we already have a project where most
>>> information has no educational value. It's called Wikisource and
>>> materials there are primarily of artistic value, not educational or
>>> information one. Since I basically support the idea that one of
>>> Wikimedia Commons aims is to collect as much notable works of art as
>>> possible, I view it as a Wikisource for visual arts and music.
>>>
>>> Should we expect Wikisource to be cleaned up as well? Does Foundation
>>> feel need to host such highly disputed works as [1] or [2]?
>>>
>>> --vvv
>>>
>>> [1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover
>>> [2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill:_Memoirs_of_a_Woman_of_Pleasure
>>>
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