I'm happy to see the Partner Organization possibility being given
serious consideration. I'm a longtime believer that organizations
with Wikimedia values need to band together into some larger
umbrella organizational structure. I hope this new framework will
allow us to return to a more
Yao Ziyuan is thinking along the right lines. Wikipedia can be more
than it currently is. We need experiments, we need to be experimental
again.
FT2 makes the excellent case that we need a level of 'insulation' to
protect our existing project from the potential negative effects of
failed
Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
possible amount of money»?
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot
of innovation ahead of us. If we stand still, we'll be overtaken.
With
Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not
even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information
sharing.
For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that For-profit media
often means For sale.
In a time where it's hard to trust a congress
