On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 19:54, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing that this corporate rebranding after our most popular product > would erase is the "Wikimedia movement" - a social movement that is the > leading modern manifestation of the Free Culture movement that attracted me > as a member of Student For Free Culture a decade ago. Rebranding ourselves > after a mere product is in some ways an erasure of the underlying social > movement. When one is part of the "Wikipedia movement", one is just a user > of a specific website, and it sounds as empty as the "Facebook movement". > Yes. You can't be a member of "The Wikipedia Movement". (And if you could, you'd exclude all other projects + scope from the movement and erase the breadth that gives life to it. ) FT2 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
