From the first text: " Explore new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups that use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia."
I also think that Wikipedia is a much stronger brand than Wikimedia is, but I have been talking about this issue the last weeks in different places with way very different people and they all say that they will have real problems if they change the name from Wikimedia to Wikipedia. Legal issues will be more common if the name convention is changed from Wikimedia to Wikipedia, as you can be responsible (country law's depending) of what it is written on Wikipedia. ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:39 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals > At the occasion, we should also reconsider the expressions "chapter" > and "user group". > "Chapter" is more suitable for local divisions of a national > association. And "user group" sounds just like some group. We also > already have "user group" as a technical term in MediaWiki. > You may be aware that the movement strategy process is thinking about this issue, albeit at a broader level :) For instance one of the questions the Roles and Responsibilities group is looking at is "What governance and organizational structures do we need to support the delivery of the strategic direction?"(1) You will notice that there is no mention of chapters, user groups or indeed the WMF in this question. That's because there is no presumption that any of those bodies (or types of bodies) will continue to exist in their current form - the changes from the strategy process may well be much more profound than finessing the names of categories of entity that currently exist. Thanks, Chris (1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Community_Conversations/Roles_%26_Responsibilities#Scoping_questions _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
