[Wikipedia-l] Re: Statement of principles

[Michael Snow]

Evan Prodromou wrote:

>    MS> I would interpret this as saying that Wikipedia content should
>    MS> be independent of, and normally not discuss, internal
>    MS> Wikipedia/Wikimedia politics and management issues. The
>    MS> primary forum for that discussion should be the mailing lists.
>
>Wha...? Not the Wikipedia: namespace or meta.w.o? I guess I need to
>read up some more.
>
>~ESP
>
Well, I was referring to whether regular Wikipedia articles should 
discuss internal issues, not to the Wikipedia: namespace or the Meta 
site. I could have included those with the mailing lists to be more 
complete. But part of my point was that I don't believe that this 
principle will always apply. If (when) Wikipedia reaches a certain 
point, some internal issues may have to be discussed in the encyclopedia 
portion because they're significant enough. Just the same way that the 
New York Times had to report about itself in the Jayson Blair fiasco. 
It's a tough judgment to make, and sometimes nearly impossible to do 
NPOV, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist either.

--Michael Snow