Yes, you're right.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there, > > why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with > various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of > the Foundation but more employees, 2 new blogs, new Vector skin and maybe > MediaWiki performance tweaks. My participation declined radically, because I > can not feel any real support from the foundation. It is not 2006 anymore. > Look at what other websites have done in 5 years and you realize they have > undergone major redesigns. And as someone wrote here lately Wikipedia still > seems so 2005. This is OK for an encyclopedia, but unfortunately the way > volunteers work is stuck in 2005 too... > > Large-scale LiquidThreads deployment is far far away to allow more > sophisticated discussion on wikis. Few central notices is what the Strategy > project just resulted in, without any "serious" action (anyone to remember > that "call for action" thing?). I really doubt the community is able to do > more than just bring few ideas (proposals) together. > > The Fellowship program has been largely a PR thing only so far, wasting its > great potential to bring a real change in how Wikimedia uses its (financial) > resources. Similarly working grant program for wide community is needed to > be able to do the necessary progress. Besides that, we as the community have > very, very little control over what the 5 tenths of staff are paid for (I > mean a real tasks breakdown). > > Sophisticated decision mechanism simply does not exist on a community > level, and those on Foundation level are of little importance. Is it really > that hard to launch an ideas bank (at ideas.wikimedia.org for example) to > boil down what the community really needs instead of letting volunteers have > endless discussions in wiki-style? Will someone finally realize that wiki is > not the holy-grail of "collaboration" and maybe other tools are needed too? > > Videos are still not being offered in various bitrates which makes them > unusable within the encyclopedia, etc. etc. There has been literally no > progress at all from an established editor point of view and that is very > depriving. Very little is done in supporting new projects creation, Data > Commons being an example. > > I wish I had the power to change all these things, but unfortunately I do > not. Of course, if I do not want to have endless discussion in wiki (or > mailing list) -style... > > > Cheers, > Kozuch > > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- *Mono* http://enwp.org/m:User:Mono _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
