Expanding Content

It would be interesting to try to quantify Foundation resources required to support all projects. Every additional project means dealing with more tech requests and general support calls. I don't think the tech resources are trivial. They could easily occupy a single, full-time person, which, when you only have 15 tech people, is a significant percentage.

The bigger problem is the energy around lack of focus and clarity. The more projects you have, the harder it is to explain what Wikimedia is about. The fact that we haven't already articulated the criteria around what constitutes a Wikimedia project indicates the strategic challenge around this.

That is both a Foundation issue and a movement-wide concern.

Why couldn´t we strengthen the tech-volunteers? I know for example that there is one Foundation person (brian?) who is looking into the extensions, if there is one that could be used by our projects.

About focus and clarity: The same problem is if wikipedia should be open to as much articles as possible or should wikipedia stick to the more high level articles. I don´t want to discuss what the focus should be, I would rather ask how should we decide those type of questions. Is the board the one who decide this, is it the local community or should we decide it in a way we changed from GFDL to Creative Commons?

By the way, at meta there is meta:Proposals for new projects.

To make all of human culture and knowledge
available to everyone, everywhere, forever.
That is the foundation of the wikimedia projects.

Hows that for focus and clarity?