Good point - risk management isn't just about technical disaster - geopolitical issues are actually a much greater long term risk
On 8/15/2011 2:04 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > The primary value of a fork(s) is not financial or technical, but > epistemological. We are the big kid in the playground, and that has a > significant effect on the nature of the content. When we work so hard to > build an aura of reliability readers begin to depend on us. > Paradoxically, that's not always good. If we are so reliable, the reader > is not motivated to look elsewhere for alternatives. Natural human > laziness is bad enough by itself. We too easily fall into the trap of > treating Group POV as Neutral POV. Forks, would develop their own > versions of NPOV, and end up with very different results that are as > easily reliable as ours, but still different. It becomes up to the > reader to compare corresponding pages, and draw his own conclusions on > the matter at hand. > > We should not be viewing forks as inherent evils to be resisted at all > costs. We should be encouraging them, and helping them. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
