Dear Castelo, We are in danger to repeat ourselves. :-) Short and simply, my statement: * WP is an encyclopedia, with all what that means; * the difference between primary sources and secondary sources is of vital importance (at least in the perspective of most historians).
Kind regards Ziko 2012/2/26 Castelo <[email protected]>: > On 25-02-2012 23:02, Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> >> As said, all the great things Oral history can be done - outside of >> Wikipedia. > > Yes, it "can be done" but it's not "been made". The information is there for > decades or centuries, and it was never registered outside of Wikipedia, and > now we have interested people, available time and enough resources to make > it happen. > > We already did a lot of things that could be made (less efficiently, indeed) > outside Wikipedia. Let's begin with Wikipedia itself. And what about > Wikimedia Commons? > > This is knowledge, and our commitment is to freely share the knowledge with > every human being, so change the question from "Why?" to "Why not?". > > Castelo > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
