[Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Sun Sep 4 18:34:52 UTC 2011


> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
>> So, to understand the circumstances around building community or
>> chapter in particular country, I strongly suggest reading relevant
>> cables.
>
> <3
> Lots of work.
>
>>
>> And, BTW, Wikipedia articles could be improved thanks to those cables.
>
> We consider WL to be a reliable source?
>
>> [1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/01/06BELGRADE41.html
>
> (goes off to read)

Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because
they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally
the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they
have been analyzed by a peer-reviewed secondary source.

Fred






More information about the wikimedia-l mailing list