On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 19:54, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One thing that this corporate rebranding after our
most popular product
would erase is the "Wikimedia movement" - a social movement that is the
leading modern manifestation of the Free Culture movement that attracted me
as a member of Student For Free Culture a decade ago. Rebranding ourselves
after a mere product is in some ways an erasure of the underlying social
movement. When one is part of the "Wikipedia movement", one is just a user
of a specific website, and it sounds as empty as the "Facebook movement".
Yes. You can't be a member of "The Wikipedia Movement".
(And if you could, you'd exclude all other projects + scope from the
movement and erase the breadth that gives life to it. )
FT2