On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Carmen <yarru...@charter.net> wrote:
> [This essay was rudely rejected by the gatekeepers at Signpost calling it > irrelevant but not explaining why. Could someone please suggest where I > might submit this for a fair hearing by the WMF community?] > > To me it seems like you are somewhat unfamiliar with the difference between the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. The WMF can be "political" and express a viewpoint; NPOV applies only to the article content of a single project. I'm also not sure your attempt to distinguish between "political knowledge" and "encyclopedic knowledge" is particularly coherent, or at least your essay lacks the detailed reasoning necessary to support the distinction you're trying to make. Even if your idea for a sort of gov-wiki - a project devoted to public data, government operations and related information - has merit on its own, and it might, your novel method of presenting pros and cons is simply unworkable. This problem and the philosophical fuzziness of your argument may be why your essay was rejected by the Signpost. ~Nathan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
