In the interest of creating *informed* discussion, please note the publication of Episode 82 of Wikipedia Weekly - an interview with Matt Halprin.
In this, at timecode 9:15 he is specifically asked about the issue of the donation+board membership. http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/08/28/episode-82-matt-halprin-interview/ Best, -Liam [[witty lama]] On 8/28/09, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/27/09 6:43 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: >> I agree. Inward facing communication has long been a problem for >> WMF. >> At times there have been board members that took more leadership in this >> area regarding various issues, but I can't remember a time when this >> hasn't been an issue. I think it is mostly a problem of WMF not setting >> up the expectations accurately. In my personal opinion when >> communicating with the community; surprises are bad. Even good surprises >> are bad. > > Indeed, good surprises are *worse* than bad surprises, because the > resulting confusion can taint how the community perceives a project, > plan, or person introduced this way. > > Rest assured that we're talking internally about how we can improve > coordination between the board, staff, communications team, and other > key parts of the community on these sorts of decisions and > announcements, and I hope we'll all be much better prepared for the next > good surprise! > > We are still in the middle of our big annual conference, so please bear > with us if we're a little slow and distracted in responding to > everything just yet. > >> Fulfilling expectations on the other hand is good. It seems to >> be better received by the community when WMF fulfills a modest >> expectation than when it reveals a wonderful surprise. > > Under promise, over deliver. :) > > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) > CTO & Senior Software Architect, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
