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

[Anthere]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> 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.

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.

> 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.

yup.

Ant