I decided to understand this as "what do you want
Wikimedia to be in 5 years", so no "there are much
legal threats against Wikimedia" here...
==WMF in 5 years==
*Board and management
The Board is elected by the community. Jimbo is
regularily re-elected as president.
The Board has the people it needs to work...
*Staff (the positions, the roles, whether they're
paid or not)
What is needed... Preferably voluntaries, since they
are more involved, but why not paid ? (see next point)
*Budget
As much as possible...
*Fundraising scheme
Donations by patrons (enterprises, private people,
fundations...), without counterpart, subsidy from UN,
UNESCO and States, merchandising. No publicity on the
projects, no fees to access them.
*Philantropic activity and outreach to get our
content widely redistributed
The celebrity of Wikimedia make it possible to
militate against patents and copyright, and the whole
world has understand the need of a free internet
access, even in a lost recess in jungle, so everybody
can access to our content. I'm not sure a paper
version of Wikipedia is really a good idea, since it
will be a "under-Wikipedia", without links and so.
Web-links is the only structure of Wikipedia, so a
paper version will need to practicaly rewrite the
whole thing.
*Projects
I have no idea of serious new projects. Wikicookbook ?
:-)
The Sept-11 Memorial has been removed, like the
Klingon Wikipedia, but after everybody has accept it.
*Content objectives
Wikibooks has grown much bigger than Wikipedia. All in
2005 existing Wikipedias have grown over 100,000
articles. Wikispecies is again a part of Wikipedia...
Wiktionaries are complete (since it's possible,
contrary to Wikipedia)
*Software objectives
SVG make pictures freely editable, like text, with a
specific MediaWiki syntax (no need to know SVG).
In all projects, each word can be opened in a
Wiktionary window
*Relationship between chapters and parent
organisation
WMF and local chapters are interdependent.
Transparency and regular reporting of activities at a
central and freely accessible place is the rule. Local
chapters negociate with content sources (e.g. museums)
for access.
*Relationships with the outside world (PR,
partnerships, etc.)
WMF already got the Nobel prize for Peace in 2008...
*Other (anything we did not think of)
A corpus of irremovable laws, like a constitution has
been written. These rules garantee that the spirit of
Wikipedia and of the other projects will stay the same
for the 1000 next years.
Traroth
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