On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alec Conroy <alecmcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Juergen Fenn <juergen.f...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Am 02.07.11 14:17 schrieb Alec Conroy: >>> There's an even bigger opportunity here-- >>> Make a brand new brand name that captures the ideology better than >>> Wikipedia-Mediawiki-Wikimedia. > > Wikipedia will always be Wikipedia-- but what about Wikimedia?? What > does its brand say beyond "We host Wikipedia and stuff like it" > Now compare that with the magnitude of our vision of a world where > everyone has access to all the world's knowledge and information. > This is an awesome vision, a "Moonshot" kind of vision. Are we sure > we just want to call it "The movement and foundation associated with > Wikipedia"?
A rebranding like this could be launched in tandem with the next significant project launch or makeover. > The Wikimedia Foundation is about more than just > Wikipedia, and "The Wikimedia Movement" is about _way_ more than just > Wikipedia. Unless we really think Wikimedia is the best name, it's > never too late to switch. The general public doesn't know Wikimedia > exists, they just call it "Wikipedia". We do so much more than just > that, so we're ripe for a brand extension. Right. S. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l