Critical partnership

What types of partnerships are critical to advancing Wikimedia's mission?

Partnerships that would further the aims of all stakeholders. Partnerships with non-profit organisations, to pool resources for common goals. Partnerships with online organisations. Internal partnerships between task forces.

Are there critical partnerships for each project (e.g. OCR for WikiSource, video for Commons), and are there critical partnerships for the whole community (e.g search engine). Should we differentiate between these kinds of things. e.g. a project specific thing is called a "partnership" whilst something that is across the whole community is called an "alliance"?

I agree with the idea that there are "critical partnerships for each project", but also are somo critical ones for al WM projects. For instance, a academic alliance it's important for all: we will gain a lot of reliability for the media if some well-known academic institutions collaborate with us.