[Foundation-l] More on Wikimedia strategic planning

Fri May 1 06:36:12 UTC 2009

2009/5/1 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/5/1 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2009/4/30 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
>>>>> I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
>>>>> knowledge dissemination,
>>>>
>>>> Did you mean 300 years?
>>>
>>> Yes.  Considering the stakes and our capacity for history, this seems
>>> to me appropriate and possible.
>>
>> It is impossible to predict what humanity will be like in 300 years,
>> if it even still exists, so it is completely impossible to predict
>> what Wikimedia will be like or what challenges it will need to face.
>
> Can we perhaps split the difference between you two and say: 30 years?

I think we would be missing an opportunity if we didn't at least
outline some rough ideas for a 30-year timeframe, but much more than
that involves far too much guesswork to be worthwhile.