On 11/15/06, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
== Vision Statement ==
'''Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.'''
Involves a lot of running and screaming
== Mission Statement ==
'''The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop knowledge under a free license, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.'''
'''In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation is committed to making and keeping all information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.'''
Not quite true. There are a number of bits of information from the projects which the foundation generaly prevents from being freely availible for obvious reasons. the deletion log to start with.