Liam Wyatt wrote:

... we all believe in the greater mission of free-knowledge

"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

That is not a noun phrase, it is a verb phrase: Empowering and engaging, collection and development, and predication on education are all precedent to whether the content is free and how well we disseminate it.

Some will say that the order doesn't matter. Those people are mistaken. Ask the billions of people who only see the first few sentences of article introductions every day on Google.

I do not believe in "the mission of free knowledge." If empowering and engaging people requires paying them, then by all means pay them. I have preliminary data showing that creating new articles is more fun than maintaining old ones, so we might want to figure out how to pay people to maintain them.

Best regards,

James Salsman