On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Marcus Buck<[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard hett schreven: >> 2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu <[email protected]>: >> >> >>> I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. Please >>> respect us. >>> >> >> >> If by "respect" you mean "agree" and "do what I say" ... then I'm not >> surprised you have no insight as to why no-one cares about your >> request. >> >> >> - d. >> > I care about his request (which is reasonable, as geni pointed out) and > I'm sure many other people care too, but don't speak up in this forum. > Of course it can be annoying, if somebody asks for the same thing again > and again, but as his request is reasonable, the only thing you can do > about it is executing the request. The only reason why this is not done > yet is that nobody, who has the power to do it, cares about it. I really > disagree with the foundation people more and more loosing touch with the > communities. It's not just this request. It's also the fact, that > bugzilla bugs are not worked on for weeks and months, delays in software > rollouts, and the low worth that is given to community worktime (like > the example given by Tisza Gergő or the thousands of manhours that are > wasted every day with setting interwikis which could easily be saved, if > we had a central interwiki repository and if this repository wouldn't be > blocked by the developers). Perhaps the foundation should hire new > staff, whose job it is to _read_ the mailing lists (I'm quite sure, that > many of the messages at the lists are read by nobody from the foundation > or just by people who say "not my department") and to make sure that the > relevant foundation employees take care of requests, questions etc. > Another function could be taking care of Bugzilla bugs and delegating > them to the relevant people. And we urgently need new developers. The > current slow pace makes it clear, that the paid staff isn't even able to > keep up with maintenance and daily operations. There are really few big > innovations. We need developers, who can completely focus on innovation. > Like global preferences, like a central interwiki repository, like an > integrated map service, like a working interface for category > intersection, like a Wikidata-project to keep volatile data consistent > and up-to-date (e.g. population numbers). Known problems since half a > decade (when I joined Wiki(p/m)edia) and even before. Five years ago I > understood that these dreams were impossible, but today we have the > money to actually do it. We earned 2 million recently, so please spend > some bucks on hiring people to improve the response time to community > requests and to improve development.
The only contribution of this person to this list is about closing mo.wp; if I count well, probably for years. And this is not reasonable. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
