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.
Nemo