I totally agree with that and its one of the major reasons the WMF exists in the first place. We've basically described the division of labor - the community comes up with a plethora of ideas and donates money and then WMF synthesizes, refines and implements them, fully in coordination with said community. The problem is that if we limit community participation to hard-to-use tools then the same people that come up with just a few ideas will select only among the ideas that they thought up. It wouldn't be a broad enough search. It hasn't been a broad enough search.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/6/1 Brian <[email protected]>: > I'm not convinced such a way of gathering ideas would actually result > in anything useful happening. Brainstorming (which is basically what > you are describing a tool for) is a very useful way of getting ideas, > but you then need a way to implement them. Democracy isn't a good way > of working out which ideas to give further consideration to - one > person saying "this will never work because of XYZ" (where XYZ is a > serious problem) outweighs dozens of people saying "this is a great > idea" (but not giving any way to overcome XYZ). The strategic planning > process will hopefully involve things like the process you describe > for getting ideas, but it also involves small working groups that are > able to go through the ideas and work out what ought to be done. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
