[Foundation-l] THIS is why we support WMF! Sincere thanks for a blackout.
Alec Meta
alecmeta at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 16:31:29 UTC 2012
Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not
even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information
sharing.
For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that "For-profit" media
often means "For sale".
In a time where it's hard to trust a congress or mainstream media, one
thing we can agree to trust is each other-- in the form of the Wikimedia
community and its leaders.
Today, I'm so proud to be a part of this community. It's _extra-clear_
today that we do stand for something-- indeed, we stand for something quite
revolutionary.
MSNBC and CNN can never afford to go back-- they have advertisers. We are
one of the few truly-non-profit information sources-- and that gives us a
unique value unlike for-profit information sources. In a sea of alphabet
soup, three letters we CAN trust are WMF.
I hope in 2012, the WMF will take its governance model and continue to
apply it outside the limited scope of encyclopedias. Genealogy is the
goto example-- Ancestry.com can't afford to blackout for good causes-- WE
can.
We're not just another information source-- we're an information source
with a conscience. That makes all the difference.
Good work, WMF. Thank you for what you've done, thank you for what you're
doing.
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