On 2 May 2017 at 18:18, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that's the first time I've heard Wikipedia described as bewitching. > I'll take it as a compliment. > FWIW, I have a hard time parsing this as bad news. Someone hiring 20,000 > professional writers to create a freely accessible (though not distributable) > encyclopedia is probably a net positive for humanity. I'm sure it will be > heavily biased on political issues and heavily censored, but I doubt that > will completely negate the value of the work. As an encyclopedia buff, I hope > I can be forgiven for being secretly a little bit excited to hear about this > effort. Cuba also has a state-sponsored Wikipedia competitor, EcuRed. Some of > the articles are dripping with propaganda, but it's coverage of Cuban history > and culture is actually much better than Wikipedia's (including Spanish > Wikipedia). If this gives China an excuse to permanently block Wikipedia, I > suppose it will be a net negative, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. > You are now free to tar and feather me!
I think you've hit the key point - we need this to be released under a proper free content license :-D (probably increasingly off topic for the dev list ... maybe see if they have useful changes to contribute back to MW) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
