[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Brand Survey Analysis

Fri Jul 6 10:09:21 UTC 2007

Anthony wrote:

>On 7/5/07, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>Anthony wrote:
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>>>So, the assertion is that it's OK to get something for Wikipedia, and
>>>then use it for another project, because people who contribute to that
>>>other project think they're contributing to Wikipedia anyway, and
>>>because people who contribute to Wikipedia are unaware of the other
>>>projects?
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>>>
>>That might make sense if we were to pretend that there's some kind of
>>magic wall between
>>"some-project-that-is-just-an-encyclopedia-and-nothing-else-ever" and
>>"everything-else-that-we-do".
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>Well, I don't believe in magic, but I do think there are significant
>walls between the various projects.  Different sets of users,
>different admins, different rules, different domain names.  About the
>only thing the same is the software.
>
That expresses that the universe is unfolding as it should.

Ec