Absolutely agree with Galder.
WikiMedia is not only Wikipedia. Is not just an encyclopedia, but all other
wiki projects.
And is also a movement for openness, a philosophy, a way to do things.
Means collaborations, partners, a lot of other staffs than an encyclopedia
doesn't include.
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Il giorno mer 10 apr 2019 alle ore 11:14 Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder158(a)hotmail.com> ha scritto:
I also think that there are some branding issues, but
let me focus just in
the opposite way: Wikimedia is not a bug, is a feature. When you say you
represent WikiMedia, then someone asks about why an M ad not a P and gives
you the opportunity to talk about our free knowledge ecosystem, that is not
about an Encyclopedia, is much more. So deleting the M from the equation
would vanish even more our sister projects.
On the other hand, think that maybe in 2022 (for example) we could create
a new project based entirely on videos with free content from Wikipedia and
Commons, that could be the best project by 2030... and we call it
Wikivideo. Would still be a good idea to be called Wikivideo, a project by
the Wikipedia Foundation, or would we start thinking on calling ourselves
The Wikivideo Foundation? I think that being Wikimedia gives us better
opportunities to make better decisions on our products than identifying
totally with one of the products.
And I think there are branding issues, yes, but this are not on the name,
but on the product and the logo families.
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Pe marți, 9 aprilie 2019, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> a
scris:
At the
occasion, we should also reconsider the expressions "chapter"
and "user group".
"Chapter" is more suitable for local divisions of a national
association. And "user group" sounds just like some group. We also
already have "user group" as a technical term in MediaWiki.
You may be aware that the movement strategy process is thinking about
this
issue, albeit at a broader level :)
For instance one of the questions the Roles and Responsibilities group is
looking at is "What governance and organizational structures do we need
to
support the delivery of the strategic
direction?"(1)
One would hope that both that group as well as others will be informed and
will take into account the results of the study, which confirm anecdotic
data that almost anyone doing outreach knows.
This is not a matter to be left at the foundation's sole discretion
(although I personally approve the proposals to various degrees).
Strainu
You will notice that there is no mention of chapters, user groups or
indeed
the WMF in this question. That's because
there is no presumption that any
of those bodies (or types of bodies) will continue to exist in their
current form - the changes from the strategy process may well be much
more
profound than finessing the names of categories
of entity that currently
exist.
Thanks,
Chris
(1)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_
Community_Conversations/Roles_%26_Responsibilities#Scoping_questions
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