Samuel Klein wrote:
MZM, you are confused in this thread - Wikimedia doesn't exist to serve EN:WP, or to serve its most popular *current* project, it exists to support the global dissemination of all sorts of knowledge, and collaboration to create that knowledge.
You're on the Board still, right? So you probably have more readily available access to these stats than I do: out of Wikimedia's share of resources over the past five years, what percentage has gone to Wikipedia and what percentage has gone to Wikinews? What about Wikiversity? Wikiquote? Wikispecies? Wiktionary?
Wikimedia indisputably now exists to serve the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia is quick to call Sue "Wikipedia Executive Director," isn't it? Or plaster "Wikipedia founder" on every fundraiser-related publication? Out of the last X extensions enabled on Wikimedia wikis, how many were written primarily for the English Wikipedia (MoodBar, WikiLove, ArticleFeedback, etc.)? If you can't provide percentages to the question above, do you know of any resources that have gone to a site other than Wikimedia Commons or a Wikipedia in the past five years? What resources have been devoted to Wikinews in particular?
Thanks for volunteering to clarify some of my confusion. :-)
MZMcBride