On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 00:15, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Third, we're not all about Wikipedia. We're about the Wikimedia Movement, or even more generally, the free culture movement. That incorporates a much wider range of projects, including Wikiversity whose aim is explicitly to educate people, and a load of other projects that do this to a lesser extent.
IANAL, but this seems to be the key thing that we're stumbling on. If we press this aspect of the chapter's purpose, that it supports Wikimedia which is very obviously an educational charity, and that we support all our projects esp. Wikiversity and Wikibooks, then maybe their misapplication will dissapear. Focussing on Wikipedia whenever Wikimedia comes up is something people tend to do.
Avoiding mention of Wikipedia would be a good start, it's a large and popular website and any mention of it is bound to mix in peoples preconceptions.
It may also be worthwhile to mention your support of Wikieducator, a commonwealth-based charity which is both similar in some ways to Wikiversity+Wikibooks. Wayne Mackintosh, a member of the WMF advisory board is also a prominent member of Wikieducator, so maybe you could get some support from him?
You also want to be clear that you are supporting MediaWiki, the open-source software.
--Andrew Whitworth