Hi
Thank you Florence & Sj for your feedbacks and additional information.
This was necessary to me but they confirm my personal primary feelings.
I had the belief that the current WMF mgmt (board?) would at least avoid
this kind of mistake. I have to admit I was wrong. It looks like there
is a
It is a fair question Emmanuel
Well, what you say is true. In short, if I summarize super briefly
1) According to Heather, the brand redefinition was a request from the
board back in 2015. But there is no mention in board meeting minutes and
two former board members do not remember this
In two hours (at 0500 CEST) and tomorrow (2100 Sunday), there will be a
community discussion of the proposed Wikimedia rebrand, organized by some
affiliates (not by the WMF). I'll be there.
We are meeting in part to confirm that there is no silent group of
affiliates who are enthusiastic about
Florence - yes, I see that.
Emmanuel - No need to spend much time on this process; but a quick filling
out of the survey indicating dissatisfaction with every option will help
close off this possibility for creative use of statistics.
For those who do want to discuss this briefly w/ other
Hi Florence
Thank you for keeping us up-to-date with this process.
On 17.06.20 20:08, Florence Devouard wrote:
> So, the Brand Team is moving on and has announced a short list of
> proposals to rename Wikimedia Foundation, UG and such to remove the word
> "Wikimedia"
I hope I'm properly
Florence Devouard, 18/06/20 04:16:
Of course, that should not prevent us to propose names of replacement
for WMF. Or to propose Wikimedia Foundation to replace Wikimedia
Foundation (hmm, actually, no change then).
Makes sense. It seems there are no ideas for a better name of the user
group,
Hey Sj
Make sure you read the proposals very carefully. You'll find out that
the 3 proposed proposals all provide the same name for the Wikimedia
Foundation. Which is the Wikipedia Foundation.
According to the rumors, this is basically decided.
Of course, that should not prevent us to
I can imagine "Wiki" and "Wikigroup", but none of the other options really
resonate.
"...part of the Wikimedia family of projects". and something like
"WikiFoundation" could work for taglines and the global org name. The
movement could not be the Wiki Movement unless we start supporting *all*
