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Applications and modifications of mission statement

Reference : Foundation:Mission statement as of 14th of december 2005.

The board of Trustees is dedicated in making the goals of the Foundation, stated in the Foundation: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 exemple, 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 (including addition of advertisement)
any development or use of non-free software to get the project running
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.

Proposed by Anthere - 14 december 2005

State : discussion. Will be proposed to next board meeting

Votes

Jimmy Wales:
Tim Shell:
Michaël Davis:
Angela Beesley:
Florence Devouard:

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-'''Applications and modifications of mission statement''
+'''Applications and modifications of mission statement'''
-Reference : [[Foundation:Mission statement]]
+Reference : [[Foundation:Mission statement]] as of 14th of december 2005.
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 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 http://www.fsf.org or  similar licensing scheme, see http://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 http://www.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,  (http://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).
+The goals of the foundation are to encourage the further growth and development of open content, social sofware WikiWiki-based projects (see http://www.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,  (http://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 making the goals of the Foundation, stated in the [[Foundation:Mission statement]]
+The board of Trustees is dedicated in making the goals of the Foundation, stated in the [[Foundation: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 exemple, 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 (including addition of advertisement)
+* any development or use of non-free software to get the project running
+* 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.
 '''Proposed by Anthere - 14 december 2005'''