2008/12/22 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>: > I don't like guys from Wikmedia projects speaking in some sort of > "supremacy" language. Our goal is to create: "a world in which every > single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." so > if the Britannica or PWN or any other commercial provider of the > knowlegde is making their content free we should be simply happy. And > it is not very clever to say that it is just because they feel the > pressure from us (which in fact might be the true anyway :-) ). They > have many values and advatages which we should still learn from them.
Yes. As I said, just because Britannica is rude about Wikipedia is no reason to be rude in return. It's good to see we're catching up in many areas, but they remain the gold standard that en:wp works to in many ways. The Wikipedia writing style is different - Britannica is not NPOV, it's "authoritative" - but at our best we do very well indeed. But at our worst we're still terrible. Lots of work for the future! :-D (A tangential note: I consider NPOV to be our most important innovation - much more radical than merely letting anyone edit your encyclopedia. The concept of "neutrality" has existed in various guises, but not like Wikipedia does it, with the consequences it has as a source of information for the world.) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l