[Wikipedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia; Negotiation

[Mark Christensen]

I think the key problem here is a breakdow of trust on both sides.  I
think we are all in agreement that Wikipedia branded encyclopedias
should all be open and NPOV. If we want them to trust us not to abuse
the wikipedia for advertizing purposes, we should trust them to keep the
encyclopedia open and NPOV.  

Probably we should ask them to prommise to maintain certain standards of
openness and NPOV, just as we prommise not to make the various
wikipedia's into a giant avertizing site.   Hopefully everybody will
keep their word, but if not the loss can be minimized by the fact that
both projects use the GNU-FDL, and so a breach on either part would just
mean that --at the time when violation occurs-- either party can fork
the project.  

As long as it's just fear that somebody will violate the principles we
stand for, we should try to get over those fears and work together.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Wales [mailto:jwales at bomis.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:52 AM
To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia; Negotiation


Axel Boldt wrote:
> In other words: we want them back on our US server, so that we, and 
> not they, are in control. We know who should be banned, but we don't 
> trust them with such decisions. Maybe we should say that clearly at 
> the beginning; it will shorten the discussion considerably.

This is a distortion of my position, but definitely we need to make
perfectly clear that local control does _not_ extend to such issues as
allowing various wikipedias to become non-NPOV, or allowing various
wikipedias to abandon the spirit of openness.  If they don't like that
restriction, then that's fine -- they can do their own non-NPOV and
non-open thing.  We're better off without them.

--Jimbo
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