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

[Erik Moeller]

On 11/17/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK... except that Erik specifically stated that these mission and
> vision statements would be the things cited in explaining why WMF
> would or would not support WikiFoo.

Only in a very broad and general way. We want to be careful not to
exclude too much a priori. But I am personally very much in favor of
using the word "Knowledge" in the Mission & Vision statements, because
it is, depending on how we interpret it (and we can argue for an
interpretation based on the existing projects), already a fairly good
limitation of scope. Florence has now objected to this word in the
unstable Mission Statement and replaced it with "content". I still
haven't seen an adequate explanation why "knowledge" should not be
used.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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