[Foundation-l] [Wikinews-l] Proposal for the creation of aWikinews foundation

[GerardM]

Hoi,
What you will hear me say is that we should cooperate with other
organisations. This may lead to us merging with other organisations. I am
extremely unlikely to say that other organisations are to fold into the
Wikimedia Foundation. Cooperation, partnership is something that you do when
there is a mutual respect and when there are benefits to both organisations.
Asking other organisations to fold into the WMF does not show respect for
what these other organisations are, do and have done.

Merging creates one new organisation where more than one organisation used
to exist before.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 9/2/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/2/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > PS I do appreciate the reason for a Wikinews organisation. :)
>
> I am somewhat confused by this sentence. Is it not you, Gerard
> Meijssen, who just a few weeks (perhaps months) ago suggested
> that wikimedia fold *in* other organisations under its umbrella;
> rather than spinning them off?
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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