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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 9/2/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I don't quite see how all this fits up with creating more than one
organisation where only one used to exist before, which would be
the case, if wikinews went its separate way.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]