[Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Nov 29, 2009, at 11:04 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:

> Questions that I'd like to see
> discussed on a large scale are:
>
> * Do we want any new projects? Right now? In the future? Ever?
> * If so, do we only want projects that follow traditional reference
> book models of organizing information? (e.g. Wikiquote, which follows
> the model of books of quotations)
> * or perhaps only educational projects?
> * do all projects have to follow NPOV? What about the other  
> guidelines: NOR, V?
> * do we only want projects we start ourselves, or would we consider
> projects started by other organizations?
>
> And yes, this could go on the strategy wiki -- but I don't know of a
> good, unstructured place to have a discussion about such things there
> (that isn't a specific proposal or strategic objective or whatever).



I'd also like to point out http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Expanding_Content 
    - a task force to deal with exactly these issues.

Input is always welcomed :)

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