[Foundation-l] Seeking clarification

[David Gerard]

On 23/01/2008, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> The WMF's goals are not "set up some websites and protect their
> interests aggressively". They are to get the content out there, to get
> more of it created, and the sites and the hosting are a means to that
> end.


Yeah. Running a hideously popular and expensive website is not in fact
our goal, it's just a way to get all this reusable educational content
out there effectively :-)

The goal of a paper Wikipedia seems to have fallen by the wayside (HOW
many volumes?), but subsets on DVD are already being produced to good
effect by third parties, e.g. the SOS Children DVD of 4,000 en:wp
articles. Which they originally produced to use in their own schools.
Ideally we'd be getting a lot more third-party reuse than we presently
do.


- d.