2008/12/13 Florence Devouard <[email protected]>: > My answer tomorrow could be > "Wikipedia was probably the least planned project ever; it currently has > reached the level of a non-profit start-up, with a planning ability of > about 1 year".
Scenario planning longer than that would start making some seriously unwarranted assumptions. For example it would be somewhat dicey to bet against the position that in 5 years time most content added to wikipedia will be bot extracted from google books (I've already seen claims that bots can write articles with something like 90% accuracy from just standard websites given who was making them they may have a point). In such an environment long term planning is of questionable value. To concentrate on the censorship issue any scenario would normally assume that the internet infrastructure will remain constant. Safe over one year less so for more than that. > and > "Professionals could probably help us grow up in certain areas, but they > would have to cope with all the no-life standing on our mailing lists". You missed that wikipedians are paranoid and thus unlikely to want to discuss negative scenarios due to the risk people might actually try to cause them to hurt wikipedia In any case the mailing list is not a good place to carry out such planning which is better done on wiki where a kinda finished result can be organized. Finally we would have to get some honest answers from the foundation about where it plans to be in 5 years time (funding, server location, size, legal position). -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
