At the board meeting of 7th October, we put together a form of words
for the Objectives
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Objectives, but have
not agreed a final version.
The new text states:
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The charity's objects are the promotion of education and advancement
of heritage for all by empowering and engaging people to collect,
develop and effectively disseminate educational content and heritage
resources under a free license or in the public domain by means which
may include all or any of the following:
1. promoting freely accessible online information repositories
whose content is freely and collaboratively editable;
2. acting as a voice and representative for the community of UK
residents and citizens who use and edit such repositories;
3. preserving world heritage, and particularly that of the UK,
through such repositories;
4. supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation;
5. enabling, assisting, promoting and promulgating wider
participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of
information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge
and languages to all persons, everywhere;
6. furthering the development of electronic, printed, and other
resources required to support such participation;
7. producing, publishing and developing, or cause to be produced,
published and developed, information resources, whether in printed,
electronic, or other forms;
8. making use of or encouraging the use of information resources
for the advancement of education;
9. encouraging the adoption of practices and policies to widen
education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide;
and
10. undertaking any enterprise or business and generally do all such
other things as may be conducive to promoting the objects of the
charity.
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The main questions raised at the board meeting were:
a) whether the text should specifically mention the Wikimedia Foundation;
b) whether the text should specifically mention wikis;
c) whether point #10 is clear, necessary and in line with charitable status;
d) whether the organisation should be a "voice and representative for
the community of UK residents and citizens", or for everyone with a
connection to the UK;
e) whether this list format is the best manner in which to describe
our objectives.
This is the starting point; the board now need the views of the
community. So please comment and make proposals, on this list, and on
meta, within the next few days.