--- On Fri, 6/25/10, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one > Wikipedia" > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 1:07 PM > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:11 PM, > phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > But, to be fair, do we ask such questions of our other > projects? I do > > not recall being asked if I was a trained encyclopedia > writer or a > > trained journalist when I joined Wikimedia :) Perhaps > we should ask > > these kinds of hard questions of a new project, but > also realize that > > we may not be able to predict all of the answers ahead > of time. > > My first answer is that Wikipedia is good enough for > children and that > we do not need a Wikipedia fork with dumb language. If you > think > differently, please find or make relevant research which > would prove > your position. > > This type of project is original research per se. (Making > an image, > movie or educational game is OR. Making rules for language > usage is > POV and OR. Saying that Wikipedia is not good for children > is POV and > OR.) And we have to be extremely careful with any kind of > original > research. We have two opposing projects in way of handling > OR: > Wikinews, which handles it very well and Wikiversity, which > doesn't. > And if we are not able to drive well project with > educational courses > for adults, I can say that Wikijunior would be a disaster > after just a > couple of months of independent life. > > The problem with such projects is that they are usually a > field for > self-proclaimed experts to promote their ideological > agenda. As it is > about child education, it will be full of very stupid > explanations, > like that children are not able to understand this or that > or that > children mustn't hear something because it would kill > them. Such strong labeling of the goals and make-up of this group wishing to work on a Medical Encyclopedia for Children really needs to be supported by some evidence. Especially as I don't believe they are participating in this conversation and therefore unable to clarify. I am afraid I don't speak German, but I would like to see what I can gather from machine translation if you would please direct me to the proper links. Birgitte SB _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l