Chris and all,
We need to define what communities we are talking about. I put
together a page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Management
trying to define some of this.
The references on the page are worth reading (I think the page and
attached talk page are also
Richard.
On S
I've put some of my thoughts about the dynamics of the WMF-Community
relationship into an essay on Meta, entitled "Why do They always get It
wrong?"
I thought I'd share it here. Hope it's useful!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:The_Land/Why_do_They_always_do_It_wrong
(It's not specifically