[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation in 5 years - Giant brainstorming - a game with rules.

Tue Aug 30 05:00:21 UTC 2005

epzachte at chello.nl wrote:
> Five years from now:
> 
> Finally animated versions of all board members are available, to read any mediawiki text to you aloud. 
> New gestures coming soon. Whenever you whisper 'wikimedia' your favourite board member pops up, 
> and asks you where you would have liked to go yesterday, if yesterday would have been today 
> (a workaround, so long as a copyright infringement lawsuit is still pending). Out of sheer mockery 
> the animated board member does his/hers best to impersonate a paperclip. 
> 
> A well-known software vendor also experiments with an animated text reader for its 
> very multimediocre encyclopaedia. The character has a short beard, and sometimes stops 
> in the middle of a sentence, turns his eyes towards the future and murmurs "Free Willy". 
> A patch has been announced that changes this to "Free Mandela". 
> Out of even sheerer mockery hackers replace the character with a semi-nude guy 
> carrying a globe on his shoulder with all kinds of funny symbols on it.
> 
> Erik Zachte

I am repeating myself

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

"but no-one is allowed to criticize/comment on other people's 5-year 
plan on this list."

Tough.