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'''Philippe Beaudette''' is a young man who took control of the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]'s ''[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Wikimedia_Strategic_Planning Strategic Planning]'' initiative. Since that time, he has played petty games of "delete and block" in order to hide serious questions about the future of the Foundation.
'''Philippe Beaudette''' is a young man who took control of the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]'s ''[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Wikimedia_Strategic_Planning Strategic Planning]'' initiative around [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Philippe_%28WMF%29&diff=prev&oldid=8 July 23, 2009]. Since that time, he has played petty games of censoring critiques in order to hide serious questions about the future of the Foundation. Thus, the Foundation is going to be directed into a sad, unambitious five-year plan that the mainstream media has [http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/wikipedia/wikimedia_not_going_to_invest_in_china_africa_paid_editors_149337.asp already derided].
As one critic has said of Beaudette's strategic planning results:
::''The Wikimedia Foundation will continue to geek out on hard drives, bandwidth, and marveling at how many page views they garner. But, they will do nothing to work responsibly and ethically toward building a higher-quality, reliable compendium of human knowledge. Thus driving home the truth that Wikipedia is a massive online role-playing game, not an educational charity project. In a word, fraudulent.''
==Beaudette makes mistakes==
==Beaudette makes mistakes==
Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation/Feb_2010_Letter_to_the_Board&oldid=54466 said]:
Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation/Feb_2010_Letter_to_the_Board&oldid=54466 said]:
::''We've interviewed 65 people, including Board and Advisory Board members, staff, editors, onlookers, [b]critics[/b], supporters, and external subject-matter-experts...''
::''We've interviewed 65 people, including Board and Advisory Board members, staff, editors, onlookers, '''critics''', supporters, and external subject-matter-experts...''