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{{resolution
 |type = governance
 |year = 2005
 |title = Applications and modifications of mission statement
 |notes = This proposal to modify the mission statement was created on 14 December 2005, but was never voted upon. It was eventually replaced by [[Special:MyLanguage/Resolution:Mission and Vision statements|Resolution:Mission and Vision statements]] (April 2007).
 |status = inactive
}}
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The general purpose and objectives of the Foundation shall be the following:

Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to the development and maintenance of online free, open content encyclopedias, collections of quotations, textbooks and other collections of documents, information, and other informational databases in all the languages of the world that will be distributed free of charge to the public under a free documentation license such as the Free Documentation License written by the Free Software Foundation Inc. at [//www.fsf.org www.fsf.org] or similar licensing scheme, see [//www.wikimedia.org www.wikimedia.org].

The goals of the foundation are to encourage the further growth and development of open content, social sofware WikiWiki-based projects (see [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki]) and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. In addition to managing the already developed multilingual general encyclopedia and almanac named Wikipedia, ([//www.wikipedia.org www.wikipedia.org]) there is a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus named Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations named Wikiquote, a collection of e-book resources aimed specifically toward students (such as textbooks and annotated public domain books) named Wikibooks and a collection of source works called Wikisource; other projects are envisioned. The Foundation also manages the operations of the largely dormant Nupedia project (which is not a wiki but is open content).
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The board of Trustees is dedicated in preserving the goals of the Foundation, stated in the Mission statement.

Any modifications which could impact the current goals of the Foundation must be previously agreed by the board of Trustees. Within these modifications (non restricted list)

* creation of a new project (to check if its goals are within the current mission statement)
* any major modification of the goals of a specific Wikimedia project
* modification or adoption of new licensing scheme for any project
* any modification toward reducing the freedom of access to information (for example, making it mandatory to open an account or provide information to allow access to content)
* any modification toward adding a cost to access the content (asking a payment for participation or access to content)
* any modification toward inclusion of advertisements on the website
* any development or use of non-free software to get the project running
** we need another phrasing here probably, to pinpoint running the site, not to exclude using excel for financial statement, or ptt for presentations :-)
* any decision aiming at largely excluding the development of project in certain languages
* any decision aiming at largely exclude participation of a certain type of editors (including anonymous editors, or any decision relying on their sex, age, color, religion, political opinion etc... as long as they respect the general policies of the project)

In case of urgent need, the CEO of the project is allowed to bypass this obligation, but his decision must be confirmed by the board at the following meeting, and will be reverted if disapproved by the board.

=== {{int string|references}} ===
* [[Mission statement|Mission statement]] as of 14th of December 2005.

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'''Proposed by Anthere - 14 December 2005'''

'''State''' : discussion. Will be proposed to next board meeting