on 1/17/12 11:31 AM, Alec Meta at alecm...@gmail.com wrote: > 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.
Very nicely said, Alec. I would like to add something I posted on the English WP Mailing List: Why Wikipedia is important: Without knowledge, myths are born. With myths, fear is born. With fear, intolerance is born. With intolerance, ignorance is born. With ignorance, nothing is born. Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
