On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:17 PM Dggenwp <dgge...@gmail.com> wrote: > The projects are the route by which content is added to Wikipedia. The > purpose of Wikipedia is not to have an organisation—the purpose is to have > and distribute free content. Everything else is superstructure—everything > except the individual volunteers and the projects. This superstructure can be > important, but not essential — the volunteers are capable of organising > themselves and maintaining the projects. The foundation by itself is capable > of almost nothing, as it doesn’t add content. The chapters are of value, > primarily in recruiting contributors—without that, they’d just be social > clubs. > > The volunteers and the projects to which they add content are what matters. > The three key functions of the organisation are maintaining MediaWiki (but > that’s a volunteer effort also) in raising the small amount of essential > funding, and the critically important political work of supporting freedom of > the internet and of speech more generally. But our influence for this is > because people in the world use the content the volunteers add to the > projects. The structure must be organised around them. We are here to build > an encyclopaedia.
Without wish to argue against anything of what you wrote (can certainly agree with orientation), I would add (somewhat in your style) that this is 2021 and Wikimedia sister projects have also their own dynamics as well as playing part in the larger ecosystem of open knowledge, code, media, information, but also related dissemination, development, deployment, publication, participation, coordination, collaboration, education, preservation and other types of work that is non-encyclopedic. Btw it is a good practice not to speak for everyone, even when this is partial truth, as it is not the only and nothing but the truth for everyone here ;-) Best Z. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MRXIDGEY6BUTSY5U3OV5ELTJ6JMOWWAC/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
