Omegatron wrote

For instance, machine translations are considered "worse than nothing" because of their poor quality, so it would seem that "of the highest possible quality" is more important than "in their own language".

Unless they have got better recently, I wouldn't characterise machine translations as 'into' the target language.

If Jimbo's statement is still valid, which objectives override the others? Can they be arranged (preferably by Jimbo) in order of priority?

Can this statement or the principles it represents ever be repealed or changed? Who has the power to change it? Is this simply a top-down authoritarian mandate that can't be challenged, or do regular Wikipedians have a say when changes are made to the ultimate goals and priorities of the project?

I expect the WMF Board can also issue mission statements, and update them.

Charles

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