Hey Sj

Make sure you read the proposals very carefully. You'll find out that the 3 proposed proposals all provide the same name for the Wikimedia Foundation. Which is the Wikipedia Foundation.
According to the rumors, this is basically decided.

Of course, that should not prevent us to propose names of replacement for WMF. Or to propose Wikimedia Foundation to replace Wikimedia Foundation (hmm, actually, no change then).

This being said... I rather agree with you. The option 3 (wiki etc.) sounds like the "least bad" to me, though none of the options really reasonate.

Flo

I can imagine "Wiki" and "Wikigroup", but none of the other options really resonate. 
"...part of the Wikimedia family of projects".  and something like "WikiFoundation" could work for taglines and the global org name.  The movement could not be the Wiki Movement unless we start supporting all wiki tools (though that would be pretty great - we could actually do that now!).

My quick thoughts.    

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:08 PM Florence Devouard <anthere@anthere.org> wrote:

Hello friends


So, the Brand Team is moving on and has announced a short list of
proposals to rename Wikimedia Foundation, UG and such to remove the word
"Wikimedia"

Yesterday, the Team presented the results of their thinking during a
live youtube session.
It is one hour long, but the presentation itself is less than 30
minutes. Then followed by questions.

To know more about the three propositions, the page to go to :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals

The Brand team also launched yesterday a new survey to measure our
support to this new branding scheme.

We are invited to participate to this survey in two capacities
1. as individuals
2. as affiliate

And quite naturally, we can also react, discuss etc in the above
mentionned talk page, on mailing lists, telegram etc.

Taking the survey as individual is your own decision. Deadline June 30th

However, answering as an affiliate is a slighly more complicated thing
to do.

So I reported that in a wiki page, where we can collect feedback from
you and try to answer in the name of the group, if relevant.
Roughly... if there is a general agreement... it will be easy to respond
in the name of the offline UG
If there is no clear agreement... we'll have to reflect on what to do

But the first step in any cases is to actually record your thoughts on
the matter.


Steps for you...
1) if you are not aware of the topic, and arguments behind the
proposition ---->
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project
2) if you would like to read some feedback from the community, check
this :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
3) to read the proposals :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals
4) to watch the youtube session :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY
5) to take the survey as an individual :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals
6) to reflect with the group: here by email or there :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Mouvement_Brand_Project

Thanks


Anthere


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