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I'm just not sure that it makes sense to operate all this stuff under one banner. There's no economy of scale. It's not like operating WikiNews AND Wikipedia will make both better. Quite the contrary. Either Wikipedia is the elephant hogging all the peanuts, or you have people leaving Wikipedia when it still needs talented people.

The only other alternative is that they're both independent, each with their own set of volunteers and mission. But then there's definitely no reason for the Wikimedia foundation to run both. If you want to attract two different kinds of volunteers, you want to have two different brands.

And then you factor in that you want each one to utilize different technology?

It's not that I don't think there is some merit to some of these other projects. But I just don't see the merit in operating all of them under Wikimedia.