[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

Thu Dec 25 01:53:47 UTC 2008

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> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>>> Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a
>>> memorial
>>> project for all disasters.
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>> And what, in principle, is wrong with that?
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> Kurt, et al...
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> In principle, it does not scale well.  I can understand a Wikipedia
> article on an event (disaster)... but a memorial project?
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> The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
> people around the world to collect and develop educational content
> under a free license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content> or
> in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
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> The memorial project does not appear to meet the above statement.  The
> "Wikipedia article" on the tragedy would appear to better meet this
> mission statement, as opposed to a "memorial wiki".
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> And that my friend, is what, in principle, is wrong with that.
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> Best,
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> Jon

It would be quite educational.

Fred