The freedom to know things

[David Gerard-2]

A remarkably succinct summary of what Wikipedia is for recently
occurred to me: "freedom of knowledge"; "the freedom to know things."

This freedom was, of course, hard-fought and hard-won. And the battle
actually continues.

Do either of the quoted phrases sound like good summaries of what
Wikimedia is actually about? I eagerly await the fine pedants of this
list picking them to pieces.


- d.

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[Thomas Dalton]

It's not just the freedom to know things, it's the freedom to share
your knowledge. Both are important.

On 1 January 2012 13:49, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:

> A remarkably succinct summary of what Wikipedia is for recently
> occurred to me: "freedom of knowledge"; "the freedom to know things."
>
> This freedom was, of course, hard-fought and hard-won. And the battle
> actually continues.
>
> Do either of the quoted phrases sound like good summaries of what
> Wikimedia is actually about? I eagerly await the fine pedants of this
> list picking them to pieces.
>
>
> - d.
>
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[David Gerard-2]

On 1 January 2012 14:05, Thomas Dalton <[hidden email]> wrote:

> It's not just the freedom to know things, it's the freedom to share
> your knowledge. Both are important.


Yes. Though we quite definitely don't provide a platform for any
comer. The freedom to share your knowledge is the freedom to say
2+2=4; that freedom is well-known. Freedom to know things is not so
well known.


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[Thomas Dalton]

On 1 January 2012 14:50, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 1 January 2012 14:05, Thomas Dalton <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> It's not just the freedom to know things, it's the freedom to share
>> your knowledge. Both are important.
>
>
> Yes. Though we quite definitely don't provide a platform for any
> comer. The freedom to share your knowledge is the freedom to say
> 2+2=4; that freedom is well-known. Freedom to know things is not so
> well known.

We are pretty open when it comes to sharing knowledge. It's sharing
opinion that we are less accepting of.

The freedom to share knowledge may be well-known, but it doesn't
always actually exist. Wikipedia (as well as sites like Twitter and
Facebook) play an important role in places where that freedom doesn't
exist.

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