> In a message dated 5/22/2011 8:23:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > morton.tho...@googlemail.com writes: > > >> But the idea that "I have a right to edit Wikipedia" or "You >> have no right to do that" is incorrect, because WP is a private >> website. >> >> > > You make the word "private" have no meaning. > What would be a "public" website in that case?
Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a nonprofit corporation. If the United States government, or some other government, owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee public access it would be a public website. As it is the community does regulate it in that way. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
