On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Sean Whitton <s...@silentflame.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 00:15, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: >> Third, we're not all about Wikipedia. We're about the Wikimedia >> Movement, or even more generally, the free culture movement. That >> incorporates a much wider range of projects, including Wikiversity >> whose aim is explicitly to educate people, and a load of other >> projects that do this to a lesser extent. > > IANAL, but this seems to be the key thing that we're stumbling on. If > we press this aspect of the chapter's purpose, that it supports > Wikimedia which is very obviously an educational charity, and that we > support all our projects esp. Wikiversity and Wikibooks, then maybe > their misapplication will dissapear. Focussing on Wikipedia whenever > Wikimedia comes up is something people tend to do.
Avoiding mention of Wikipedia would be a good start, it's a large and popular website and any mention of it is bound to mix in peoples preconceptions. It may also be worthwhile to mention your support of Wikieducator, a commonwealth-based charity which is both similar in some ways to Wikiversity+Wikibooks. Wayne Mackintosh, a member of the WMF advisory board is also a prominent member of Wikieducator, so maybe you could get some support from him? You also want to be clear that you are supporting MediaWiki, the open-source software. --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
