[Fwd: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects]

I suppose this may interest you.
Sorry for crossposting; please join the discussion on foundation-l, if=20
you wish.

Nemo

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Oggetto: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects
Data: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:33:07 +0200
Da: Federico Leva (Nemo)
A: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]>

Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki,
that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as
important, now at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Five-year_targets the
second target, =ABIncrease the amount of information we offer=BB consider=
s
only the number of Wikipedia articles.
=ABWe're aware of the challenges around bot-created articles, articles of
low quality, etc., and the limited focus on Wikipedia, so this metric
shouldn't be seen in isolation, but is an important indicator.=BB Yes, bu=
t
a wrong one.

I'm, very, very disappointed: I have to conclude that all the words on
community participation etc. were only empty rhetoric.

Nemo