I would guess that about 90% of the donors have never been aware of the values, but have
no data to support that guess. Do you have better data?
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rogol
Domedonfors
Sent: Thursday, 02 March 2017 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"
Pine,
Recall that the Foundation have rewritten their values to include "we seek to
continually improve ourselves, our projects, our communities, our world.", see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Values/2016_discussion/Synthesis
The previous version
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Values&oldid=16352103 was all about
knowledge.
But now, "Our vision is about more than providing universal access to all forms of
knowledge. It’s about creating an inclusive culture"
WMF has taken on an explicitly political mission, to improve the word not merely by the
dissemination of knowledge, but by direct intervention. I do not recall that being
discussed with the Community, and I wonder what the donors think?
"Rogol"
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've written several drafts today in response to
this thread, all of
which came out as as rather energetic.
There are some reputable organizations for which I like and for which
the tone of the "main page" of this report would be appropriate. WMF
is not one of them. I would ask the people who approved the final
version of this publication (particularly those in senior management)
to carefully reflect on whether they are working for the organization
that is right for them. If they want to continue to work for WMF, I
would ask them to carefully read and focus on the WMF mission, and be
religious about staying on that mission when making decisions on
behalf of WMF. Outside of WMF it's fine to engage in many kinds of
advocacy, but inside of WMF, this kind of tilt is a strategic liability both to WMF and
to Wikipedia.
Pine
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