On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 00:15, Michael Peel
<email(a)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