[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 12:53:10 UTC 2006

In response to this I would say that #2 is the most important pillar,
something which Jimbo used to quote on his userpage (this seems to
have gone now). I would agree with him because a projects as wide
reaching as the foundation's cannot prosper without this. We need to
keep things as open and accessible as possible and only through NPOV
can we encourage people to get involved. If I was a non-Muslim speaker
of Urdu, I can imagine being concerned that the site was heavily
orientated in that direction, which is not the idea. Referring to #1,
it's an encyclopedia and the only purpose of having different
languages is to allow others to read and edit, not to make any other
divisions.

On 13/07/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> Mathias Schindler wrote:
>
> >On 7/13/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Such things are up to the individual project, IMHO.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Wikipedias central pillars are not up the individual project. These include
> >
> >1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
> >2. Wikipedia is written in NPOV (these include religious endorsements)
> >3. Wikipedia respects copyright law
> >4. Wikilove.
> >
> >Mathias
> >
> >
> 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.
>
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> Robert Scott Horning
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