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I see the question as "what types of knowledge should we make sure is free", with "who hosts it" being a minor secondary question. We are considering long-term strategy for supporting our movement and the world's knowledge -- we should have a list of essential knowledge that should be free, and that can be built collaboratively. Something like Jimbo's "ten things that should be free", refined with time. If noone is addressing one of those issues in a free way, we should consider starting a project for it. If others are doing a good job, but not matching one or two of our core principles, we should work to help them improve their policies. If someone is doing a good job outside of WMF's umbrella, we should consider ways we can support them as a partner; and should work to making linking across our projects trivial.

Yes, projects should flourish wherever they have taken root -- the great thing about the movement we are part of is that it doesn't matter who hosts a project! But at the same time we can build a shared understanding of what the freely sharable knowledge in the world should look like in ten years. And if a project that we openly support / that is part of that long-term mission needs help in the future, or loses its current support or host, we should be in a position to embrace them under Wikimedia's umbrella.

I love this as a frame, SJ. Let's start populating 10 things that need to be free and use this to do this analysis.