[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
If you are going to play with emphasis, how about this one:  "The mission of
the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people
around the world to collect and develop educational *CONTENT* under a
freelicense or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively
andglobally."
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Jan 19, 2008 10:56 PM, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Erik Moeller wrote:
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> > The Wikimedia Foundation is not an isolationist organization. We don't
> > want to be an island -- we want to be the ocean.
>
> Where does it say that the WMF's mission is to be an ocean?  Here is our
> mission statement (emphasis mine):
>
> ===
> The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people
> around the world to collect and develop educational content under a FREE
> LICENSE OR IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, and to disseminate it effectively and
> globally.
> ===
>
> It's obvious that, if in the process of becoming your ocean, we give up
> the free license nature, then we've failed.
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