[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation proposal to call ourselves as the Wikipedia Network, Wikipedia Movement or simply Wiki

Hello, This post on Wikimedia-l summarises and captures the recent updates and the journey so far. Specially, in case we need to know the background and details, the links shared by Florence in the post below will take through. I'll add some additional notes to the links (without editing the main post) 1) Link 1 is the main rebranding page, to know more about the rebranding plan. That's the main page. 2) Link 2 is about an RfC that took place to understand community opinion on "Should the Foundation call itself Wikimedia?" 3) Now after presenting the main idea (Link 1) and getting community feedback (link 2 the RfC, and different other channels were used to get feedback, including 2 workshops at Oslo, and Bangalore, 1 online workshop, mailing list discussion etc. they, as reported, gathered all feedback and presented 3 naming conventions. We are in "this" stage now.**** If you have got a post on your talk page or email asking to fill a survey, or talking about selecting one of the three naming conventions (Wikipedia network, Wikipedia movement, and Wiki), that's the naming convention survey. The naming conventions are presented in Link 3 below. Link 4 contains YouTube video links, where the ideas were presented in videos. **** Actually we are slightly ahead of this stage now, especially after an Executive Summary was posted on 18 June 2020, you might have noticed another post on this mailing list yesterday. In this "for your information" or "let's look back/summarise" post I don't want to include that, as it will make the timeline more complicated, and will make it more difficult to follow. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roman Bustria Jr. <> Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 3:53 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation proposal to call ourselves as the Wikipedia Network, Wikipedia Movement or simply Wiki To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hi Folks, There is a proposal initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation to call ourselves the "Wikipedia Network", "Wikipedia Movement" or simply "Wiki". I strongly suggest that the Foundation should allocate time & resources with the Wikimedia community fully involved in *identifying and resolving the real problem *that brought the idea of creating the brands department. These include opening communication channels like what was done in our strategy 2030 process to ask recommendations on how we strengthen the Wikimedia identity (like having online and offline promotion of the "Wikimedia" identity) I was puzzled how this Brand project was not fully integrated in the 2017 and 2018-2020 Movement Strategy Process. But hey, we can do a counter proposal and offer a better and more acceptable solution to this. As shared by the Florence in the other mailing list: 1) if you are not aware of the topic, and arguments behind the proposition ----> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme… 2) if you would like to read some feedback from the community, check this : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_… 3) to read the proposals : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme… 4) to watch the presentation via youtube : *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY>* -- Sincerely, Butch Bustria ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>