Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: A lot of the projects that Wikimedia is investing in today are small and focused on particular needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikimedia community. One example might be an article feedback tool that's largely focused on

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: A lot of the projects that Wikimedia is investing in today are small and focused on particular needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikimedia community. One example might be an article

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Another example might be an UploadWizard that is focused on ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Multimedia grant requirements rather than actually being fully developed and ready for use by Wikimedia Commons. These examples are off

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 April 2011 09:48, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*. ... And in the Hungarian Wikipedia it was even implemented quite a long time ago. If i recall correctly, at some point i

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Another example might be an UploadWizard that is focused on ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Multimedia grant requirements rather than actually being fully developed and ready for use by Wikimedia Commons.

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: On 5 April 2011 09:48, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*. ... And in the Hungarian Wikipedia it was even implemented quite a long time ago. If i recall

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: What I see is grants supplying money to get initiatives that have been long-wanted happening. The near-impossibility of getting even quite simple things through a bureaucratic kudzu-choked community process has been noted on this list *many* times. To

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread geni
On 5 April 2011 09:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: *cough* From 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/1.0 Magnus put together a quick version, but Brion didn't like the code and it never happened. However, mine is just one such proposal. Article rating has been a

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 April 2011 22:20, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2011 09:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*. What I'd like to see is article rating being more widespread. But having a grant push it through is *just fine*, because it

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Snow
On 4/5/2011 2:37 PM, David Gerard wrote: Classic is largely unmaintained, since no-one seems to want to bother to maintain it. To coin a phrase, Monobook is the new Classic. Maybe we should rename Classic to Legacy? That might communicate the implications a bit better to anyone considering it.

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-05 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:22 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: David Gerard wrote: On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Another example might be an UploadWizard that is focused on ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Multimedia grant requirements rather than

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-04-04 Thread MZMcBride
Jan Kucera (Kozuch) wrote: why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of the Foundation but more employees, 2 new blogs, new Vector skin and maybe MediaWiki performance tweaks. My

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-03-21 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 18/03/11 23:28, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) wrote: Hi there, why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of the Foundation but more employees, 2 new blogs, new Vector skin and maybe MediaWiki

[Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-03-18 Thread Kozuch
Hi there, why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of the Foundation but more employees, 2 new blogs, new Vector skin and maybe MediaWiki performance tweaks. My participation declined

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-03-18 Thread The Mono
Yes, you're right. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) garba...@seznam.czwrote: Hi there, why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of the Foundation but more