On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the point is to have whatever would be the locally relevant > version of neutrality. On Wikipedia it's NPOV. On Commons or > Wikisource, I expect it would be neutrality of subject matter. Etc. > The key point would be (something like) that Wikimedia projects are > not for pushing views.
NPOV transformation to general neutrality will work in the most of the cases. A clear example for such transformation is Wikinews. Even called as "NPOV", Wikinews neutrality is a different kind of approach because it is a journalistic one. *But*, even neutrality is not always possible. Wikiversity is the case because, for example, you are not able to teach/learn about impressionist critics of art by applying any kind of neutrality. While this is an extreme example, a lot of scientific fields are more or less there. And if you want to force any kind of neutrality there, you would get the same kind of scientific production which existed in East European countries during 50s and 60s: A (very good) book about ancient Greek literature starts with 20-30 pages of Preface in which author explains relations between ancient Greek literature and Marxism. But, there were a lot of not so good books which had a lot of grotesque connections between Marxism and its content not just inside of their prefaces. There should be a way how to protect projects' integrity, but it is not insisting on NPOV or neutrality if it is not possible. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
