MZMcBride, 13/09/2011 00:24:
Wikimedia has made its decision and the community has largely sat quiet on the issue.
Rectius: the Wikimedia Foundation (as you say below). Other Wikimedia people, groups and organizations don't think so and are even accused not to have the "legitimacy" (!) to invest resources (especially money) on projects other than Wikipedia. That's the message: working on non-Wikipedia projects is not only risky and probably useless (in terms of revenue) and anyway something we don't want to do ourself, but even immoral. I don't know, it might be right: nobody has the monopoly of the truth; but for this very reason, when I see such dogmas stated or implicitly assumed, I'm very worried that we might have overlooked something and be going to do something very wrong.
Wikimedia has made it clear in promotional materials, donation drives, and nearly anywhere else that its focus is the English Wikipedia. Of all the criticisms you can make about the Wikimedia Foundation, I wouldn't say that "it's not being upfront about its intentions or motivations on this issue" is a valid one.
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