[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Michael Snow]

On 11/20/2013 10:52 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> Perhaps another way of putting it is to ask whether the
> encyclopedia-building community is the means or the ends.  To my eyes,
> having "more contributors" is not valuable unless it has "better
> encyclopedia" as a direct consequence.
I believe the mission is sufficiently large in scope that having more 
people involved is fundamentally desirable in general. Although to 
circle back to an earlier point in the discussion, that doesn't require 
that we accept involvement that is counterproductive. Maintaining our 
standards is a way of acknowledging that the number of people involved 
is not itself the end goal.

--Michael Snow