[Wikipedia-l] wikipedia in China

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Fri Sep 24 02:43:47 UTC 2004


Christopher Mahan wrote:

>--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
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>>Stan is being sarcastic, but how would that article be handled?
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>Like I said, no article. 
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>We're building an encyclopedia, not an activist website.
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Exactly: look up the definition of encyclopedia.  If we are excluding 
notable information because it is politically unpopular, we are not an 
encyclopedia, but propaganda.  I would rather have no Chinese Wikipedia 
than an overtly propagandist Chinese Wikipedia.

-Mark




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