Ting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational >> value. They gain their educational value in the way that they provide >> repositories for the other WMF projects.
Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hold on, now. These are all awesome educational projects in their own right. >... Commons resolved the "are we our own project or are we a technical > solution for other projects" question early in its evolution. And > its great that it became its own community, because its culture has > developed some of the best examples of multilingual collaboration we > have. To be fair to Ting, I think he meant what others have pointed out before that Wikipedia is the flagship project - not just in name and not just in numbers. This is not to denegrate any of the other projects, but to remember that they all started in large part because "the wiki" (en.wp) conquered the "where's the content" paradigm and it started receiving materials that were beyond the scope of an encyclopedia. News, sources, images, etc. Of course Sam is absolutely right about the value that each of the once satellite projects have gained on their own. There are a number of reasons why it's important to remember that the encyclopedia comes first. For one, successful companies can get too big and lose focus: Drifting into "wiki" priorities instead of "encyclopedia" priorities, for example, would be the albatross here. That's not to say that we shouldn't further pursue the science of collaborative database interfaces (ie. "wikis"). -Stevertigo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
