[Foundation-l] "All human knowledge", by Jimmy Wales (?)

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I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all
human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic".

Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded.

2011/9/16 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>

> Hello,
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> Today I read on a WMDE driven website:
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> "»Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der das gesamte Wissen der
> Menschheit jedem frei zugänglich ist. Das ist unser Ziel.«
> Jimmy Wales"
>
> (Imagine a world in which the entire knowledge of mankind is freely
> accessible to everyone. That is our goal.)
>
> I never read that in English. Jimmy Wales actually said: "... the sum
> of all human knowledge".
>
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
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> And I think that there is a huge difference between "the sum of
> all..." and "all...". By the way, the traditional encyclopedias
> described themselves by "the sum of all..."
>
> But a number of Wikimedia national organizations seem to have
> difficulties with Jimmy's phrase. They 'translate' it to "all..." I
> did not succeed, for example, in explaining to my own national
> organization why it is wrong what we have on our business cards.
>
> Am I the only one seeing a problem here?
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
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> Ziko van Dijk
> The Netherlands
> http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/
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