[Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 10:45:50 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Peter Damian
<peter.damian at btinternet.com>wrote:

> A general question: is there a Wikipedian ideology?  What is it?  In
> particular, how does the current ideology, if there is one, compare with the
> ideology which inspired its founding fathers. And mothers - many of the
> founding editors of Wikipedia were women, I don't know how many people know
> that.
>

I think I'll quote Jimmy on that:

*Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge.* That's what we're doing.

All knowledge should be available freely to everyone. That's the Wikipedian
ideology, I say.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com



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