WMF has both a
Mission Statement and a
Vision Statement. Some projects (such as Wikiversity) also have them. As near as I can tell, the English Wikipedia does not have a Mission Statement or a Vision Statement.
QUOTE(Polargeo @ Tue 25th May 2010, 11:40am)
However, this illustrates much of the problem. Lumping climate change together with Intelligent Design and Cold Fusion, or even scientology for that matter, is not useful. It is so completely different that it becomes a joke even trying to compare it and doing so is indicative of the misconceptions of the whole area. The Israel Pallestine issue is a very separate type of issue and is far closer to the Balkans situation on wikipedia.
I will grant you that the level of rudeness, abusiveness, coerciveness, etc, varies from one subject area to the next. The editors of IDCab were so egregious and outlandish in their bullying tactics that ArbCom unanimously condemned one of them. The issue that Cla68 raised was that he was seeing those same bullying tactics turning up again in the CC kerfuffles.