[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/2006 6:43:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
gerard.meijssen at gmail.com writes:

Danny,
We are not writing an encyclopaedia. We are also writing an  
encyclopaedia. It is just one of the things that we do. The Foundation  
is NOT about writing an encyclopaedia. The Foundation is about enabling  
projects like Wiktionary in many languages, Wikibooks in many languages,  
Wikiquote Wikinews and ALSO Wikipedia in many languages.

Given that  the election is about governing the Foundation it is highly 
relevant that  people can be explicit in what they aim to do. When people 
want to write a  platform why they should be elected, it is for the 
people that read it to  comment on it and maybe even inform the rest 
about potential  silliness.

NB It has been said both by Anthere and Jimmy that the  Foundation is 
/not /about Wikipedia when commenting on some of the initial  platforms 
of Wikimedia Foundation board  candidates.

Thanks,
GerardM



Thankl you for the reminder, Gerard. Without it I would have forgotten my  
15,000 edits in Wikisource over the past two months.
 
Wait ... you forgot to list Wikisource ... I guess that doesnt count.
 
Danny