[Foundation-l] RfC: Mission & Vision Statements of the WikimediaFoundation

[Erik Moeller]

On 11/15/06, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at 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.

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Peace & Love,
Erik

Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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