On 7/29/2013 1:50 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote:
I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge
that need be availible to every human being, but the consumption.
Actually, having co-drafted the Vision Statement (it was drafted at
the October 2006 Board retreat in Frankfurt and then finalized after
community discussion), I can assure you that that was not the intent.
I recall that Florence and I talked about that specific aspect a fair
bit. We proposed the language "share in" over "given free access to"
in order to emphasize that it's not a one-directional process (some
treasure trove of knowledge that you are given access to), but a
process we are creating an opportunity to participate in. It could be
made clearer, but that was the intent.
In any case, I'm not sure why we'd conclude that making the production
of knowledge more widely available is somehow harmful to the cause of
making the consumption of knowledge available to everyone. Because the
success of Wikipedia has been built on rather the opposite of that. In
that context which comes first, production or consumption, is sort of a
chicken-or-the-egg question about the origin of network effects.
--Michael Snow
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