Perhaps you should work on establishing the Wikimedia brand...
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2011/1/1 Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
wrote:
But to suggest that the choice of such shorthand is tantamount to "lying to and misleading our donors" is, indeed, irresponsible hyperbole. It's clear that the choice was, in fact, made to _reduce_ potential confusion of donors about who/what they're being asked to support.
Hang on:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
When we get letters saying things like "I'd donate, but only to
Wikipedia, not to Wikimedia", it spells out for us that it's possible we could attract more people with the institution of Wikipedia than the institution of Wikimedia.
See the immediately previous sentence in Philippe's email: "Yes, it'll come as a shock to all of you <tongue-in-cheek> but there are people who don't know that Wikimedia is anything more than a mis-spelling of Wikipedia. </tongue-in-cheek>." He's talking about the exact same issue.
-- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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