Erik Moeller wrote:
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:
- 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.
Nod. If you can come up with another way of expression that "share in", it will be interesting to look at.
But the big change indeed is an attempt to reflect the reality of what WE are trying to do. We are not seeking only to feed the world with information/knowledge/content; we are also collecting and organising this knowledge. And the collection is not restricted to a happy few, but is an open and collaborative process.
- 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.
yup.
Ant