On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/12 John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>: >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen >> <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hoi, >>> Providing help to an organisation that can be considered part of the >>> Wikimedia movement makes sense. The issue with Citizendium is that they >>> explicitly distance themselves from many of the basic corner stones of what >>> has made Wikipedia what it is. >> >> Which cornerstone is that? >> > > I think the most serious problem with them is that they do not follow > NPOV. Instead they follow a kind of biased-sympathetic-expert-POV.
Is that systematic, symptomatic or merely evidenced in a small set of articles? I've seen lots of people point out specific problems with their content, but we have many problem articles too. > Anyway, I think it is worth helping Citzendium, but in a way to leave > their editorial policy freedom and clearly state, that they are not > going to be Wikimedia project, but they are a different approach, > interesting but not in line with some of our basic values such as > "anyone can edit on equal base" and "NPOV". I agree with everything except whether or not they are in line with our basic values. They may not align with Wikipedia's values, but as a separate project they dont need to be; instead they need to fit within the core values that all our projects have in common. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Values http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
