FYI

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Date: Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM Subject: RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Sue & I have drafted a set of research goals that the Wikimedia Foundation supports. The purpose of the document is to have something we can point researchers, universities, foundations, and other third parties to when they ask us: So, what kind of research are you interested in? Will you support/endorse my research proposal X? In most cases, we will not actively pursue these goals directly -- we'll just try to facilitate & endorse research by third parties.

These research goals need to line up with our overall organizational goals to make sense, so we've tried to map research goals to organizational goals.

In light of this constraint, please do feel free to make revisions, or to suggest changes on the discussion page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals

It's still a draft looked at by only two people - so we do expect it to be incomplete. :-)

(BTW - I'm aware that some chapters are pursuing a research agenda on their own: This is great, and these Foundation goals are in no way meant to be prescriptive for chapters.)

-- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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