Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy and its subtypes

2016-02-23 Thread Mardetanha
​Thanks :) ​ Mardetanha On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:58 PM, James Hare wrote: > "Strategy" is too broad because it includes areas where there is broad > consensus (WMF doesn't do editorial policy), areas where there is a working > consensus (WMF prefers grantmaking and collecting best practices ov

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy and its subtypes

2016-02-23 Thread James Hare
"Strategy" is too broad because it includes areas where there is broad consensus (WMF doesn't do editorial policy), areas where there is a working consensus (WMF prefers grantmaking and collecting best practices over direct outreach work), and areas highly fraught with conflict (arguments over t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy and its subtypes

2016-02-23 Thread Mardetanha
it would be great if someone could give us tl;dr version of this mail Mardetanha On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:21 PM, James Hare wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Of the many issues, real or perceived, currently under discussion, one of > them is the matter of strategy: of the Wikimedia Foundation and o

[Wikimedia-l] Strategy and its subtypes

2016-02-23 Thread James Hare
Hello everyone, Of the many issues, real or perceived, currently under discussion, one of them is the matter of strategy: of the Wikimedia Foundation and of the movement in general. I’ve been editing Wikipedia since November of 2004 and have noticed that the general points of tension have rev