[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 12:45:12 UTC 2006

Mathias Schindler wrote:

>On 7/13/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Such things are up to the individual project, IMHO.
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>Wikipedias central pillars are not up the individual project. These include
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>1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
>2. Wikipedia is written in NPOV (these include religious endorsements)
>3. Wikipedia respects copyright law
>4. Wikilove.
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>Mathias
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However, I would point out that the only thing this violates is #2 
listed above.  The Quran (Koran?) is in the public domain and certainly 
free of copyright, and Wikilove would encourage you to try and come to 
an accomodation here rather than micromanage this from the WMF board or 
stewards.

In other words, let the individual project deal with this, using their 
own cultural standards for native speakers of Urdu, tempered with these 
pillars and principles you mentioned.  It doesn't need to take up 
bandwidth here unless there is a deadlock on this issue and isn't being 
dealt with.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning