Hello, There is still a huge difference between "telling a lie" and "being inaccurate", and I don't see something misleading. It is true that the Wikipedia/Wikimedia is confusing to many people. It never happened to me that people, to whom I explained about, had any problem with using Wikipedia as the umbrella word for the whole movement.
Ziko van Dijk 2011/1/2 Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org>: > 2011/1/1 Stephen Bain <stephen.b...@gmail.com>: >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> But to suggest that the choice of such >>> shorthand is tantamount to "lying to and misleading our donors" is, >>> indeed, irresponsible hyperbole. It's clear that the choice was, in >>> fact, made to _reduce_ potential confusion of donors about who/what >>> they're being asked to support. >> >> Hang on: >> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Philippe Beaudette >> <pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> When we get letters saying things like "I'd donate, but only to Wikipedia, >>> not to Wikimedia", it spells out for us that it's possible we could attract >>> more people with the institution of Wikipedia than the institution of >>> Wikimedia. > > See the immediately previous sentence in Philippe's email: "Yes, it'll > come as a shock to all of you <tongue-in-cheek> but there are people > who don't know that Wikimedia is anything more than a mis-spelling of > Wikipedia. </tongue-in-cheek>." He's talking about the exact same > issue. > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
