> I think you are all dancing around the real subject. > Is wikipedia meant to help people have access to > knowledge, to apportion access to knowledge, or > to be a gate-keeper on which knowledge and at > which rates do people have access to it?
Wikipedia is a summary of generally accepted knowledge. We aspire to make that summary conveniently available on a global basis. The gatekeepers are those who edit media considered reliable. In these cases, at one time, information was published but is no longer considered of interest, although books may yet be written which explore issues such as Wikipedia forks. Access to knowledge, in itself, is not something within our mission. Not that a project well founded on appropriate philosophical and scientific principles would not be worthwhile. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
