Jasper Deng, 12/10/2013 01:53:
I then read the website and found that Wikimedia's and their missions go together very well; part of it is the commitment to sharing and spreading information.
Where did you get this impression? I've read a few pages and to me it just seems the typical research network body. It's easy to see it from their international partners: http://internet2.edu/international/partners/ The only overlap I see is in defending net neutrality http://www.internet2.edu/government/ but it's secondary in their work.
Nemo