On 11/15/06, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I dislike the new vision statement. The older one had the exact same meaning, and was much "catchier"; the current proposal sounds too corporate.
There were two primary reasons for the changes:
1) We're not only about access, but also about participation. A read-only wiki is not very interesting. We saw "share in" as a phrase that could transport many meanings.
2) Florence and I saw "That's what we're doing" as potentially misleading for such an ambitious claim. Given how fucked up the situation still is in much of the developing world, we need to be careful not to come across as pretentious.