[Foundation-l] new site notice now ready

Thu Dec 28 17:13:35 UTC 2006

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:10:22AM -0700,  Robert Scott Horning  wrote:

> daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >14. To the editors and other contributors--Wikipedia and all the other  
> >projects do NOT exist so that a bunch of bored people have some place to play in  
> >their leisure time. They exist to spread free knowledge and free culture. Our  
> >target audience is not the editor per se, but the user-without-a-user-name who 
> > comes to rely on our projects for information, whether its a student, a  
> >traveller, or someone with an obscure interest and a passion for learning. As  
> >editors and contributors we are serving them, and not being served. That is why  
> >we keep all the sites going, no matter how costly it is. And let's be 
> >grateful  to the groups and organizations that help us meet these costs.
> > 
> >Danny
> >
> I hope this isn't a prevalent attitude among all board members to slam 
> editor/contributors this hard.
> 
> I do agree with the general sentiment that we need to be mindful that 
> there are individuals beyond the active editor/commentator community 
> that typically participates with the creation of Wikimedia content, but 
> at the same time an acknowledgement needs to be made that without the 
> active and contientious maintainance of Wikimedia content the WMF would 
> have nothing to host.  Or it would age and "bit rot" away.
> 
> Forgetting or trivializing the work of the people who have developed the 
> content will only drive away current and future contributors.
> -- 
> Robert Scott Horning

That is well said.  

Oleg Alexandrov