Hello, 2010/10/12 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > On 10 October 2010 09:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: >> Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki, >> that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as >> important, now at >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Five-year_targets the >> second target, «Increase the amount of information we offer» considers >> only the number of Wikipedia articles. >> «We're aware of the challenges around bot-created articles, articles of >> low quality, etc., and the limited focus on Wikipedia, so this metric >> shouldn't be seen in isolation, but is an important indicator.» Yes, but >> a wrong one. >> >> I'm, very, very disappointed: I have to conclude that all the words on >> community participation etc. were only empty rhetoric. > > This was a concious decision and I believe it is explained in the FAQs > or somewhere (Sue certainly mentioned it in at least one of the > (many!) presentions I've seen her do about the plan - there are slides > for those somewhere too). In summary (from memory), the reason was > basically one of "bang for your buck". The vast majority of our users > are using Wikipedia and not the other projects, which means even a > small improvement to Wikipedia is likely to have more impact than even > a large improvement to one of the other projects.
That's an unproven assumption. It might even be the opposite, i.e. reinforcing Wikipedia might only increase the gap between the projects. > Sue was very clear > that prioritising Wikipedia only applies to the WMF. That's a bad decision. The WMF should try to balance the projects, when the community has not done it alone. > The community > can, and should, continue to improve the other projects, the WMF just > feels that its limited resources are better used where they will have > more impact. Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
