[Foundation-l] RfC: Mission & Vision Statements of the Wikimedia Foundation

[geni]

On 11/15/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> == Vision Statement ==
>
> '''Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
> in the sum of all knowledge.'''

Involves a lot of running and screaming


> == Mission Statement ==
>
> '''The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
> people around the world to collect and develop knowledge under a free
> license, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.'''
>
> '''In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation
> provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework
> for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and
> other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation is committed
> to making and keeping all information from its projects available on
> the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.'''
>

Not quite true. There are a number of bits of information from the
projects which the foundation generaly prevents from being freely
availible for obvious reasons. the deletion log to start with.


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geni