Thanks for your prompt response, Ting. Fine to see we come to agreement so quickly :)
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > the following sentence from me is surely a very stupid sentense. I > apology for it. And thanks for everyone, especially Aphaia and SJ for > pointing this out to me. > > Ting > > Ting Chen wrote: >> Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational >> value. They gain their educational value in the way that they provide >> repositories for the other WMF projects. Wikisource is the library of >> Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikispecies. >> The volumes collected in it should be judged with the same principle as >> the media files in Commons. >> >> Ting >> >> Victor Vasiliev wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Having said that, the Wikimedia projects are intended to be educational >>>> in nature, and there is no place in the projects for material that has >>>> no educational or informational value. >>>> >>>> >>> I'd like to point out that we already have a project where most >>> information has no educational value. It's called Wikisource and >>> materials there are primarily of artistic value, not educational or >>> information one. Since I basically support the idea that one of >>> Wikimedia Commons aims is to collect as much notable works of art as >>> possible, I view it as a Wikisource for visual arts and music. >>> >>> Should we expect Wikisource to be cleaned up as well? Does Foundation >>> feel need to host such highly disputed works as [1] or [2]? >>> >>> --vvv >>> >>> [1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover >>> [2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill:_Memoirs_of_a_Woman_of_Pleasure >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l