[Foundation-l] A reminder about mission statements and vision statements.

[Kim Bruning]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Why? Because our mission is to make things free (as in speech).
> > You may have heard about that ;-)
> >
> 
> 
> Here is WMF's mission statement:
> 
> "...under a free license..."

In general:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_speech

More specifically:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge

even more specifically:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Content

Past which point we start analysing the actual free licenses.

> Just thought I'd remind people of the actual Foundation mission and vision,
> since technically Wikipedia itself does not have a mission statement (and
> perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong).  Wikipedia however does have
> the purpose to be the world's largest free encyclopedia.

In general for the movement:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles

Specific on en.wikipedia:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

(Incidentally, it will be very interesting to see how CC and FSF react to
filtering and/or prejudicial labelling of CC and/or GFDL content.)


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